Lost Quotes
8700 quotes by 4750 authors
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Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of…
— Rajneesh
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Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's…
— Frederick William Faber
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Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers…
— John Quincy Adams
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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long…
— John Ruskin
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One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre - just into nothingness, as smoke. Don't get attached to anything. This attachment takes you away…
— Rajneesh
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If you want to remain totally free, then don't choose. That's where the teaching of choiceless awareness comes in. Why the insistence of the great…
— Rajneesh
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
— Albert Schweitzer
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You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.
— Barry Long
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As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking…
— Lewis Thomas
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You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But…
— Celia Cruz
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If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If it comes only…
— Rajneesh
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
— St. Jerome
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If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western…
— Muhammad Asad
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Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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If I have given my all and still do not win, I haven't lost. Others might remember winning or losing; I remember the journey.
— Apolo Ohno
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Our lives become the sum of all whom we have loved. It is important not to waste anyone. One task of living out the last…
— George Vaillant
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The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost a sibling or…
— Jeffrey Zaslow
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Too many Americans have lost faith in our approach to the war on drugs...
— Gary Johnson
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Looking back, perhaps the single biggest problem was fear. Fear of failure, fear of other people, but mostly fear of myself. It has taken sixty…
— Lynda Bellingham
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Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost…
— Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
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