Refraining from revenge is the most sublime

“When you got angry, you know yourself that you got angry. That's enough”

— Chatchawan Tangtrongpanich

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

— Dalai Lama

If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.

— Marcel Proust

Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know…

— Jack Kornfield

Love is the suspension of reality in favor of the sublime.

— Jeffrey Fry

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

— Thomas Paine

Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.

— Jay DeFeo

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

— Theodor Adorno

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible,…

— Edmund Burke

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

— Henry Miller

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

— Anonymous

“Sublime places gently move us to acknowledge limitations that we might otherwise encounter with anxiety or anger in the ordinary flow of events. It…

— Alain de Botton

“Some of the things you say are sublime and monstrous at once.”

— Henry Miller

It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers…

— John Pfahl

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel