Thaler Coin Quotes & Sayings

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself. — Ludwig Feuerbach

Following the Universal Way means practicing selflessness and extending virtue to the world unconditionally. In this way one not only eliminates the heavy contamination accumulated throughout many lifetimes but may also bring about the possibility of restoring one's original divine nature and become an integral being of the multi-universe. — Lao-Tzu

Unless there is a 'clear evident experience of the True Self' [spasthvedan], till then 'Principle' cannot be attained. — Dada Bhagwan

Never true,' Old Ben would say. 'Useful- now, there's something. Your mind might make a connection that is useful. But true is another matter. True implies that you have found a connection that exists independent of your apprehension of it, that would exist whether you noticed it or not. And I must say that I have never seen such a connection in my life. There are times when I suspect there are no such connections, that all links, bonds, ties, and similarities are creations of thought and have no substance. — Orson Scott Card

I thank you, dear Brothers, for preaching the love of Christ and exhorting your people to tolerance, respect and love of their brothers and sisters and of all persons. In this way you exercise the prophetic ministry that the Lord has entrusted to the Church, and in particular to the Successors of the Apostles (cf. Pastores Gregis, 26). — Pope Benedict XVI

The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance ... We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts ... — Napoleon Hill

If I knew what I was thinking [ ... ] I would never have become a writer. — Amelie Nothomb

Persistence is often a detective's greatest ally. — Lara Adrian

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact. — John Quincy Adams

It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia. — Michael Specter

WHEN YOU MOVE THEY CAN'T GETCHA 'A — Jeffery Deaver

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it. — Kary Mullis

Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work. — Lawrence Durrell

Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived. — Elton John

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people. — Kat Dennings