Light Hearted Sympathy Quotes & Sayings

I want to create the largest-ever participatory art project and highlight the concept of Shadow Philanthropy, where people help others create work without taking credit for it - through this we can really change the world. — JR

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth."
"No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it."
"And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?"
Here she laughs. "You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing. — Iain Pears

All that exists is the temple. In this sacred place, the only religion without atheists puts its divinities on display. — Eduardo Galeano

It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life. — John Travolta

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything. — Donna Summer

The only way to make any sense of the United States Congress, our father told me once, is to view it as a two-hundred-year-long primate study. — Karen Joy Fowler

Stop filtering your nutrients through somebody else's body. — Gary Yourofsky

(The Tao) is always present and always available ... If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things. — Laozi

I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better. — Ellen Hopkins

The final reward of the dead - to die no more — Friedrich Nietzsche

The tantalizing scent transported me to a white, sandy beach lapped by a turquoise sea under a tropical sun. Lime and coconut were the getaway flavors my bakery customers needed in April, tax time. — Judith Fertig

We passed a street minstrel who was singing in one of the more obscure Eastern languages, and I dropped a few orbs into his instrument case.
"Boss, was he singing what I thought he was singing?"
"A young man tells his beloved of his love for her."
" 'My little hairy testicle - ' "
"It's a cultural thing, Loiosh. You wouldn't understand. — Steven Brust

When you become thoughtless, then you can see, feel Reality. — Nirmala Srivastava