JOHN CALVIN 1509-1564 Theologian
PEACE IS NOT TO BE PURCHASED BY THE SACRIFICE OF TRUTH.
HUMILITY IS THE BEGINNING OF TRUE INTELLIGENCE.
NOTHING IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN TO BE BLINDED BY PROSPERITY.
WHATEVER A PERSON MAY BE LIKE, we must still love them because we love God.
THE ONE CONDITION FOR SPIRITUAL PROGRESS is that we remain sincere and humble.
THE SUREST SOURCE OF DESTRUCTION TO MEN IS TO OBEY THEMSELVES.
TRUE WISDOM CONSISTS in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of self.
THERE IS NOT ONE BLADE OF GRASS, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE LEARNED WELL TO BE EARNESTLY DISSATISFIED WITH THEMSELVES, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
IT IS FAITH ALONE which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
SATAN IS AN ASTUTE THEOLOGIAN.
WHEN I TOOK THE LEAP, I HAD FAITH I WOULD FIND A NET; INSTEAD I LEARNED I COULD FLY.
ASSURADLY there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men’s evil intentions but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.
NICOLA TESLA. 1856-1943 INVENTOR
IF you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES, and it is better to make them before we begin.
ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IS A TRAIT OF INTELLIGENCE in a world full of conformists.
RAM DASS “Be Here Now”
BEARING THE UNBEARABLE is the deepest root of compassion in the world. When you bear what you think you cannot bear, who you think you are dies. You become compassion. You don’t have compassion — you are compassion. True compassion goes beyond empathy to being with the experience of another. You become an instrument of compassion.
DALAI LAMA
THIS IS MY SIMPLE RELIGION. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is KINDNESS.
MARCEL PROUST. 1871-1922 “Remembrance of things Past”
THE REAL VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
DO NOT WAIT FOR LIFE. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
LETS US BE GRATEFUL to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
MY DESTINATION is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
THINGS DON’T CHANGE, BUT BY AND BY OUR WISHES CHANGE.
REMEMBRANCE of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
TRUTH IS A POINT OF VIEW ABOUT THINGS.
WE DON’T RECEIVE WISDOM; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
ONE MUST NEVER MISS AN OPPORTUNITY of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
WE LOVE ONLY WHAT WE DO NOT WHOLLY POSSESS.
ONLY BY ART can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.
THE HEART DOES NOT LIE.
ALWAYS TRY TO KEEP A PATCH OF SKY ABOVE YOUR LIFE.
IF we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.
THE MEMORY of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.
Next stop: NIRVANA