Schmieding Peter Quotes & Sayings

Nor does it matter from the standpoint of a comparative study of symbolic forms whether Christ or the Buddha ever actually lived and performed the miracles associated with their teachings. The religious literatures of the world abound in counterparts of those two great lives. And what one may learn from them all, finally, is that the savior, the hero, the redeemed one, is the one who has learned to penetrate the protective wall of those fears within, which exclude the rest of us, generally, in our daylight and even our dreamnight thoughts, from all experience of our own and the world's divine ground. The mythologized biographies of such saviors communicate the messages of their world-transcending wisdom in world-transcending symbols - which, ironically, are then generally translated back into such verbalized thoughts as built the interior walls in the first place. — Joseph Campbell

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way. — Christopher Reeve

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes. — NeNe Leakes

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. — Jean-Francois De La Harpe

The Bible, most influential book, which have the ability to transform many lives. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours ... I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true. — Francis Quarles

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it. — Malcolm Gladwell

chaos on the streets themselves), and — Pauline Frommer

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics. — Sidney Altman

He thinks we're made of money. — Kristin Cashore

She was skinny, like a salted anchovy, she gave off an odor of wildness, she had a long face, narrow at the temples, framed by two bands of smooth black hair. But — Elena Ferrante

He responded a few minutes later.
Okay.
I wrote back.
Okay.
He responded:
Oh, my God, stop flirting with me! — John Green

We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving. — Jay Woodman