Phantasien Quotes & Sayings

One cannot completely get rid of the six passions: lust, anger, greed, and the like. Therefore one should direct them to God. If you must have desire and greed, then you should desire love of God and be greedy to attain Him. — Ramakrishna

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life. — Anne Michaels

The Revolution put an end to prostitution by giving women what they wanted: a job and a room of their own. (1983: 61) — Maxine Hong Kingston

Be wonderful! Because you are already beautiful. — Debasish Mridha

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. — Anatole France

The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol. — Florence King

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. — Charles Dickens

It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,
not though it be of the Garter,
confers so fair an honour. — Anthony Trollope

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. — William Blake

The best thing that you can do to this world is to be joyous. Being joyful, is the greatest offering you can make to the world. — Jaggi Vasudev

In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original. — Al Gore

When we set an intention to explore our emotional hot spots, we create a pathway to real love. — Sharon Salzberg

If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second. — Eleanor Clark