Red Quotes - Page 6

I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.

I don't stop when I'm tired. I stop when I'm done

We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core - which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word "love".

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions

Some people become tired at the end of ten minutes or half an hour of prayer. What will they do when they have to spend Eternity in the presence of God? We must begin the habit here and become used to being with God.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.

The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.

I've realized that somebody who's tired and needs a rest, and goes on working all the same is a fool.

I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.

Always have sunglasses with you. They're great for when you can't be bothered to put make-up on.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?

I allowed myself to be bullied because I was scared and didn't know how to defend myself. I was bullied until I prevented a new student from being bullied. By standing up for him, I learned to stand up for myself.

I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone –as it seems to me– is in danger.

If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.