Elements Quote by Nhat Hanh

Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must be groomed…

— Frederick Lenz

Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles -…

— Swami Vivekananda

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

— Nhat Hanh

Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying our creative…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

— Seneca the Younger

Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

— James Russell Lowell

Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…

— Aristotle

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

— Aldous Huxley

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of…

— Andrew Linzey

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

— Daisaku Ikeda

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

— Carl von Clausewitz