Universal Quotes

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A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which… — Jean Paul
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you… — Feist
It may happen that the enemies of Islam may consider it expedient not to take any action against Islam, if Islam leaves them alone in… — Sayyid Qutb
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree,… — Diego Rivera
When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse… — David Eagleman
If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the… — William Irwin Thompson
All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If we do not… — Jean Gebser
There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon. — Stanislav Grof
It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin… — Frederick Soddy
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. — Nathanael West
Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being. — Bjorn Ulvaeus
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around… — Henry Ward Beecher
The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it… — Al Gore
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Then one day I realized that a false picture of the German camps had been created and that the problem of the concentration camps was… — Unknown Author
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its… — Robert M. Hutchins
You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from… — Bertrand Russell
Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based… — Erich Fromm
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety… — Henry David Thoreau

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