Browse Quotes

618 quotes in the collection

• It changes

  Buddha

• Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy…

  Barbara Kingsolver

• I don’t see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn’t anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

  Robert A. Heinlein

• Sex without love is mating, love without sex is philosophy.

  Mark Amend

• Sex is like pizza. When it’s good, it’s great.  When it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.

  Unknown

• Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment, your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit. 

  Eckhart Tolle

• I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western philosophy, and the world’s great wisdom traditions. Not on the…

  Ken Wilber

• Integrative simply means that this approach attempts to include as many important truths from as many disciplines as possible - from East as well as the West, from premodern and modern and postmodern, from the hard sciences of physics to the tender…

  Ken Wilber

• We are players in a game we don’t understand. Most of our own thinking is below awareness. Our biases frequently cause us to want the wrong things. Our perceptions and memories are slippery, especially about our own mental states. Our free will is…

  David Brooks paraphrasing Daniel Kahneman

• If you could generate text, if you could generate images, can you also generate motion? The answer is probably yes. And then if you can generate motion, you can understand intent and generate a generalized version of articulation. Therefore,…

  Jensen Huang

• Scarcity is the one thing you can never have enough of.

  Marc Randolph

• I wouldn’t have seen it, if I didn’t believe it.

  Marshall McLuhan

• No man was ever wise by chance.

  Seneca

• What people say about you behind your back is none of your business.

  John Maeda

• The most selfish act of all is kindness, because its reward is so much greater than the investment.

  Tom Peters

• The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

  Carl Jung

• # All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs All my friends are finding new beliefs. This one converts to Catholicism and this one to trees. In a highly literary and hitherto religiously-indifferent Jew God whomps on like a genetic…

  Christian Wiman

• # Ulysses It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from…

  Alfred Tennyson

• # AS IF TO DEMONSTRATE AN ECLIPSE I pick an orange from a wicker basket and place it on the table to represent the sun. Then down at the other end a blue and white marble becomes the earth and nearby I lay the little moon of an…

  Billy Collins

• Americans love to offer their opinions on everything whether they know what they're talking about or not.

  Rose Mason