Spiritual Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

We are born an empty bookshelf.
Life is what we fill it with. — Felicia Day

I cannot suppose there is anybody here who would think it either a good life, or an amusing one, to sit with one's hands before one doing nothing - to live like a gentleman, as fools call it. — William Morris

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I began two hundred hours of continuous reading in the twelve hours that remained before examinations. Melvin Bloom my roommate flipped the pages of his textbook in a sweet continuous trance. Reviewing the term's work was his pleasure. He went to sleep early. While he slept I bent into the night reading eating Benzedrine smoking cigarettes. Shrieking dwarfs charged across my notes. Crabs asked me questions. Melvin flipped a page blinked flipped another. He effected the same flipping and blinking with no textbook during examinations. For every question answers marched down his optical nerve neck arm and out onto his paper where they stopped in impeccable parade. I'd look at my paper oily scratched by ratlike misery and I'd think of Melvin Bloom. I would think Oh God what is going to happen to me. — Leonard Michaels

Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father. — Marcel Duchamp

If only she could find someone as perfect as her father. He made every other man she'd ever met seem unworthy. Perhaps this was the reason she'd never found a suitor very appealing; she always compared him to her father. — Melanie Dickerson

A power nap, is when you sleep on someone who's weaker than you — Demetri Martin

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself. — Thomas Metzinger

When they go low, we go high. — Michelle Obama

I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor. — Daniel Radcliffe

At first we hope too much and later on, not enough. — Philibert Joseph Roux

We haven't got a spare planet. If we had it, we would sell it long time ago. — Ljupka Cvetanova

It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea. — Carver Mead

Those of us who are concerned about the 'church-less Christian' phenomenon ... must first look at ourselves and ask to what degree *we* have contributed to the conditions that tempt some to hit eject on the local church. — Scott Sauls

judging from what he had just seen, his father had been every bit as arrogant as Snape had always told him. — J.K. Rowling

Excuses are another way of saying "I don't want to". Purpose doesn't happen without resistance. Push through the barrier. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi