Zhuangzi Basic Writings Quotes & Sayings

To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation; to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, and then to meet tranquil Mrs. Fairfax, and spend the long winter evening with her, and her only, was to quell wholly the faint excitement wakened by my walk, - to slip again over my faculties the viewless fetters of an uniform and too still existence; of an existence whose very privileges of security and ease I was becoming incapable of appreciating. What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling life, and to have been taught by rough and bitter experience to long for the calm amidst which I now repined! Yes, just as much good as it would do a man tired of sitting still in a "too easy chair" to take a long walk: and just as natural was the wish to stir, under my circumstances, as it would be under his. — Charlotte Bronte

I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart. — Robert H. Schuller

It's funny how we all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. — Habeeb Akande

I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home. — Rod Stewart

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul. — Margaret Weis

More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our brains are a myriad of smaller components, you must reject such notions as character, praise, blame, and free will. — Paul Bloom

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. — John Ruskin

Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer. — Marvin Gaye

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody. — Paul Farmer

It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. — Alan Shepard