Earth Quotes - Page 84

What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.

Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

We live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist.

Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.

One word more, a final caution: Do not forget whom to fear at the last. I have had to be content with killing and torment; but now my plans are laid, and I have begun. I shall not rest until I have eradicated hope from the Earth. Think on that, and be dismayed!

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven.

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

Galileo got it wrong. The earth does not revolve around the sun. It revolves around you and has been doing so for decades. At least, this is the model you are using.

We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

The to Cathal was battered and only one wagon wide, with swells of hard earth where mud had frozen during cold ad rainy seasons. Enna tripped often, and cursed each time she tripped, until Dasha said, "Enna, you might watch your language." Enna grimaced. "I was. You should hear my thoughts.

But in these few moments that we have here on Earth, are we going to torture ourselves? Or are we going to allow our lights to be dimmed? How do we expect men to respect women or women to rise to more power when we don't respect our queendom in the same way that men respect their kingdom?

Science has failed our mother Earth.

Adore man, the adoration reaches Me. Neglect man; you neglect Me. Of what avail is it to worship the Lord and to suppress man, His counterpart on earth? Love for God must be manifested as Love for man, and Love must express itself as service.

So how do you do it, with just words and just music, capture the feeling that my Earth is somebody's ceiling?

That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life