Givenness Of Things Quotes & Sayings

I don't care how much money you get," my dad used to tell me. "It's not worth it if you're not happy." That's the most valuable piece of advice he ever gave me: Do what you want in life. To this day I've tried to follow that philosophy. — Chris Kyle

She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions. — Curtis Sittenfeld

If you think we can't change the world, it just means you're not one of those who will. — Jacque Fresco

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love (CCC 1022; by St. John of the Cross) — San Juan De La Cruz

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing. — William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

If it took me showing some warmth to get warmth in return, I'd do it. — C.L.Stone

If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller. — Lee Iacocca

The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal. — Theodor Adorno

Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine. — Deepak Chopra

My life seems too fast now, so obstructions bother me less than they once did. I am no longer in a hurry to see what is around the next bend. I find myself wanting to backferry, to hover midstream, suspended. If I could do that, I might avoid many things: harsh words, foolish decisions, moments of inattention, regrets that wash over me, like water. (196) — Anne Fadiman

Advice is like rain that soaks everything without being sought. — Timothy Brook

An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices. — Alan Cohen

You are alive in me. — Nely Cab

We merely ask them," Mrs Narayan answered with a smile, "to attept the impossible. The children are told to translate their experience into words. As a piece of pure, unconceptualized givenness, what is this flower, this dissected frog, this planet at the other end of the telescope? What does it mean? What does it make you think, feel, imagine, remember? Try to put it down on paper. You won't succeed, of course; but try all the same. It'll help you to understand the difference between words and events, between knowing about things and being acquainted with them. — Aldous Huxley

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one. — Layne Beachley