Transcend Quotes
288 Transcend quotes by 237 unique authors
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Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation…
— Jose Saramago
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I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like…
— Margaret Cho
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Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act…
— Stephen Covey
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Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth,…
— M. Scott Peck
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I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend…
— J. G. Ballard
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Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished…
— Thomas Pynchon
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When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so…
— Diane Ackerman
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If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at…
— Melody Beattie
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It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust…
— Virginia Woolf
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Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I believe in the transformative power of cinema. It is only through this shared dream-experience that we can transcend the oppressive minutiae of daily existence…
— Daniel Clowes
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It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know…
— Octavio Paz
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Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the…
— Karen Armstrong
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The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism…
— Karen Armstrong
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The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.
— Albert Einstein
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Okay, I don’t like it when you walk away from me, but other than that...(Arik) Yeah, I guess that makes sense. You transcend a dimension…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not…
— Aleister Crowley
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Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips…
— Rollo May
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Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend…
— Wayne Dyer
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Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go…
— Duane Michals
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There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human…
— Ian McDonald
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
— Audre Lorde
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The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged…
— Ralph Ellison
Who Wrote These Transcend Quotes
237 authors contributed a total of 288 Transcend Quotes, led by these top contributors: