Earth Quotes - Page 121

The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever.

This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.

Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or American transcendentalism. I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I’m in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.

I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.

Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously?

No one on earth has lived through the exact same experiences you have, and no one thinks the exact same thoughts you do.

The worst professional advice I've received. "If you were the last person on earth, I would never choose you to be a movie star."

If you start out with a song sounding like Britney Spears, and you end up with a song sounding like Pauline Oliveros, you'd better have pretty good liner notes explaining what on earth you mean.

It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity?

Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like the fox. He was gone like a shot.

There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil.

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

Everything is cleansed and purified by the rains, and the Earth blossoms in beauty.

Today I must dive deep within And know what I come To this earth-stage for.

Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.

There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness.

True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.

We have always understood that the foundations of the family, as an eternal unit, were laid even before this earth was created! Society without basic family life is without foundation and will disintegrate into nothingness.