Seek The Truly Practical Life Quotes & Sayings

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi

Seek the truly practical life, but seek it in such a way that it does not blind you to the spirit working in it. Seek the spirit, but seek it not out of spiritual greed, but so that you may apply it in the genuinely practical life. — Rudolf Steiner

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet. — Isaac Watts

All unlived emotions turn to inanity ... — Anais Nin

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd - uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. — Alan W. Watts

His son's transformation cannot be stopped, or hastened, or adjusted; the man he will become is already present, like a form emerging from a slab of stone. All that remains is to watch it happen. — Justin Cronin