Uponto Quotes & Sayings

Consciousness (conscientia) is participated knowledge, is co-feeling, and co-feeling is com-passion. Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea. And when love is so great and so vital, so strong and so overflowing, that it loves everything, then it personalizes everything and discovers that the total All, that the Universe, is also a person possessing a Consciousness, a Consciousness which in its turn suffers, pities, and loves, and therefore is consciousness. And this Consciousness of the Universe, which a love, personalizing all that it loves, discovers, is what we call God. — Miguel De Unamuno

You'd know where real suffering comes from. It's the same place where love and freedom and pride are born. And it's the same place where those feelings and ideals die. That suffering never stops. We only pretend it does. We only tell ourselves it does, to make the kids stop whimpering in their sleep.' He — Gregory David Roberts

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you. — Nicole Kidman

A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold things that are us. — Lame Deer

I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling? — John Muir

I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last. — Lucien Smith

To give yourself over to an evil is, in some measure, to pretend that what you know is wrong is right, and then, to justify yourself, you must give yourself over to it all the more. — Anthony M. Esolen

When I see old movies with women in floor-length dressing gowns, or when they're going to the store and they've got a pillbox hat with a net over the eyes and white gloves, I'm offended that I can't go to the store like that. — Blake Lively

You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Can you be bought?" Pilar demanded.
Maddy slid into the booth, grinned. "Sure."
"Let's negotiate." Pilar sat down beside her. — Nora Roberts

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying. — Ingmar Bergman

Everything for me is visual. That's just how my head works. — Whoopi Goldberg