Able Quotes - Page 8

Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

To love and to be loved, one must do good to others. The inevitable condition whereby to become blessed, is to bless others.

The important thing is to keep trying

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you'd start to laugh; you'd be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again.

Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better.

Every life is capable of greatness.

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples .... The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought .... The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

Beware the ides of March.

Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.