Coleridges Poems Quotes & Sayings

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you. — James Hollis

Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used; it allays the sometimes virulent fever of the over-active mind, like a cool wind blowing through the brain to smooth the harshness of untrammelled thought; it bridges here and there the gaps, brings things into proportion and blunts the sharper angles. But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment. — Victor Hugo

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place. — Harold Washington

Yeah, I still feel as if I have things to do really. I'm not ready to stop. — Peter Hook

One cannot escape the world more certainly through art, and one cannot bind oneself to it more certainly than through art — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Let that sink in. You see, the thing about pictures is they're only a moment captured in time. No one knows what transpires before or after they're taken. — Alaska Angelini

It means food on every table, every child in school, a job for everybody and a house with toilet and electricity for every family. This can be achieved through unity. Unity strengthens us. Division weakens us. — Narendra Modi

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity. — Carol Tavris

If time were a river, he felt as if eternity had stopped beside him on the bank to rest, sharing every story ever told, every victory ever won, every love ever known. — Julia Butler

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts? — Ralph Waldo Emerson