Lowd Quotes & Sayings

You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become. — The Bhagavad Gita

Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself.
We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful moment we remember that we forget. — G.K. Chesterton

Yossarian - the very sight of the name made Colonel Cathcart shudder. There were so many esses in it. It just had to be subversive. It was like the word "subversive" itself. It was like "seditious" and "insidious" too, and like "socialist," "suspicious," "fascist" and "Communist." It was an odious, alien, distasteful name, a name that just did not inspire confidence. — Joseph Heller

I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic. — Rabih Alameddine

[Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands. — Lotte Lenya

I figure, if the mind just 'has' to be busy,why not make up happy shit? — Erykah Badu

I think the only necessary conclusion is that we are too beautiful, because being not beautiful at all just doesn't make sense. — Zoe Trope

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Hypotheses like professors, when they are seen not to work any longer in the laboratory, should disappear. — Henry Edward Armstrong

Here is my hand, and here I firmly vow
Never to woo her more, but do forswear her
As one unworthy all the former favors
That I have fondly flattered her withal. — William Shakespeare

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got. — Steven Pressfield

Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled that you can't tell which is which until you've shot them both, and then it's too late. — M. L. Stedman - The Light Between Oceans

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you. — Beth Kephart