Maddaloni Quotes & Sayings

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous. — Thomas Paine

Meaning makes a great many things endurable
per haps everything. — Carl Jung

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans. — Tom Rooney

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps the most powerful Tollean insight into the ego was that it is obsessed with the past and the future, at the expense of the present. We "live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation," he wrote. We wax nostalgic for prior events during which we were doubtless ruminating or projecting. We cast forward to future events during which we will certainly be fantasizing. But as Tolle pointed out, it is, quite literally, always Now. (He liked to capitalize the word.) The present moment is all we've got. We experienced everything in our past through the present moment, and we will experience everything in the future the same way. — Dan Harris

Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world. — Alan Watts