Arising Quotes
140 quotes by 119 authors
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It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it…
— Alice Miller
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Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of a human life…
— Mas Oyama
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I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a…
— Sid Fleischman
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Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble…
— Gautama Buddha
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Life is a constant creation. It is a moment by moment, instant by instant creation. I don’t mean by this that it is a set…
— Albert Low
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With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not…
— Thucydides
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History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity
— Thomas Jefferson
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Large carbon and resource savings arising from efficiency and renewable energy programmes will be completely cancelled out by the added resource needs of even small…
— Phil Harding
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Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur..
— Guy Finley
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts…
— John Stuart Mill
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When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that…
— Socrates
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A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it.
— Eckhart Tolle
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When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising…
— Jack Kornfield
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The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return.…
— Buddhadasa
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Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I suggest...that you develop early in life the habit of retiring and arising early. You remember the advice of Ben Franklin: "Early to bed and…
— Sterling W Sill
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One of the great reasons, I am sure, why [David O.] McKay has lived to such a good, ripe, and vigorous old age has been…
— Ernest L. Wilkinson
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