Elations System Quotes & Sayings

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books. — Andrei Sinyavsky

Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future. You will never be the same. — Robin S. Sharma

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky. — Apolo Ohno

I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. — Alexander McQueen

When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth. — Bjork

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations. — Leigh Hunt

Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people. — Chuck Palahniuk

Fortune craves not Contentment, for it is an earthly hope, and its desires are embraced by union with objects, while Contentment is naught but heartfelt. — Kahlil Gibran

Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long. — Paul Simon

If you happen to hold that human consciousness is no more than the epiphenomenon, or secretion, of our individual brains then you are more or less trapped in your own skull. But if consciousness is open, if it can partake in a more global form of being, if it can merge with the natural world and with other beings, then, indeed, it may be possible to drop, for a time, the constraints of one's personal worldview and see reality through the eyes of others. — F. David Peat

An example is to say on one hand that this world is imperfect and on the other that everything that happens on the Earth is perfection. How can both be true? Well they are. From the perspective of everyday life, the world is not perfect. We have wars, hunger, disease, unhappiness and pain of all kinds. That's true. But from the perspective of the evolution of humanity everything is perfect. That's equally true. The only way we can evolve is by learning from experience and that means experiencing the consequences of our thoughts and actions. If there were no unpleasant consequences for our actions, how could we possibly learn and evolve to higher levels of understanding? — David Icke

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature. — Arthur Eddington

It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar. — John Scofield

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones. — John Milton