Heelal English Quotes & Sayings

LIBERATION LEADS TO LIBERATION. These are the first words of truth - not truth in quotation marks but truth in the real meaning of the word; truth which is not merely theoretical, not simply a word, but truth that can be realized in practice. The meaning behind these words may be explained as follows: By liberation is meant the liberation which is the aim of all schools, all religions, at all times. This liberation can indeed be very great. All men desire it and strive after it. But it cannot be attained without the first liberation, a lesser liberation. The great liberation is liberation from influences outside us. The lesser liberation is liberation from influences within us. — G.I. Gurdjieff

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. — Tony Abbott

The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government In the first place, there is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this respect than may be claimed by the courts of every State. — Alexander Hamilton

We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man. — Michel De Montaigne

[on the secret to a happy, content life]
Do you want to know what my secret is? I don't mind what happens. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about. — James Baldwin

Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem. — Brent Scowcroft

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them. — Carl Barks

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. — Louis C.K.

Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated. — Epictetus

Don't try to push [fear] away,' he said. 'If you fight it, you make it stronger. You gotta great it politely, like an unwanted cousin. You can't make it leave you alone, but you can do what you have to do, in spite of it. — Lian Tanner

Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome super-abundance of that sort of time which is not money. — Mark Twain

It would be a stretch to say that I have completely abandoned my left-directed thinking. It is impossible to change that dramatically in a short period of time. Not even cancer has that kind of power. And I have no intention of ignoring my left-brain signature strengths. Over the years, they have served me well, but now they need t occasionally take a passenger seat and sometimes even a back seat in my life. — Joanne Guidoccio

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names. — Myrtle Reed