Absorbed Quotes

374 quotes by 325 authors

It meant something to me â€“ the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a womanâ€™s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed in… — Yohji Yamamoto
With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with it;… — Neville Goddard
In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am… — Richard Ernst
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward… — Plato
The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless contribution to the… — Sri Yukteswar Giri
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea.… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others. — William R. Bradford
For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become… — Tenzin Palmo
I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. — Pierre Loti
It is impossible to estimate full influence of the reading of the Word in a home day after day and year after year. It filters… — J.R. Miller
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions,… — George Steiner
The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the… — Thorstein Veblen
We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked, not combined. We are interested and associated, not absorbed. And should European statesmen address… — Winston Churchill
Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the… — Sargent Shriver
How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks… — Robert Browning
Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard… — Ernest Dimnet
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in… — Dag Hammarskjold
You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish… — Chris Evert
To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally… — David Korten

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