Roots Quotes - Page 9

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

I'm a big root beer guy.

There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right.

God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

God the Father's a deep root; the Son's the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance

Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.

The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

The truth of your instincts is the root of your foundation.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.