Semitones Converter Quotes & Sayings

If you wish to have leisure for your mind, either be a poor man, or resemble a poor man. Study — Seneca.

The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and proclaims his intention to save the seas is convinced that he is superior to a man who merely picks up his own and other people's litter on the beach, when in fact the latter is in some small way sure to make the world a better place, while the former is likely to be a monster of vanity whose crusade will lead to unintended destruction. — Dean Koontz

[F]or Zen there is no duality, no conflict between the natural element of chance and the human element of control. The constructive powers of the human mind are no more artificial than the formative actions of plants or bees, so that from the standpoint of Zen it is no contradiction to say that artistic technique is discipline in spontaneity and spontaneity in discipline. — Alan W. Watts

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability. — Mahatma Gandhi

The problem is that contemporary people think life is all about finding happiness. We decide what conditions will make us happy and then we work to bring those conditions about. To live for happiness means that you are trying to get something out of life. But when suffering comes along, it takes the conditions for happiness away, and so suffering destroys all your reason to keep living. But to "live for meaning" means not that you try to get something out of life but rather that life expects something from us. In other words, you have meaning only when there is something in life more important than your own personal freedom and happiness, something for which you are glad to sacrifice your happiness.129 — Timothy Keller

Think of everybody you talk to as having a flashing sign on their chest saying: Make me feel special! — Arthur L. Williams Jr.

There are not a few people to whom I would far rather speak about their own sins, than tell them their children had done anything wrong. — J.C. Ryle

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. — Billy Graham

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism. — Charles Spurgeon