Sidney Lanier (Sidney Clopton Lanier) Quotes

Through the seas of dreams and the seas of fantasies, through the seas of solitudes and vacancies, and through myself, the deepest of the seas, I strive to thee, Nirvana.

Sidney Lanier

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• God forbid that women have fantasies.

  

  E. L. James
  • God
  • Women
  • Fantasies

• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Achievement
  • Gift
  • Strive

• Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Perfect
  • Excellence
  • Strive

• Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • War
  • Strive
  • Away

• Only the insecure strive for security.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Security
  • Strive
  • Insecure

• Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

  

  Saint Basil
  • May
  • Light
  • Fall

• I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Real
  • Book
  • Serious

• Movies are romantic fantasies.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Romantic
  • Fantasies

• Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Home
  • Heaven
  • Nirvana

• In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Direction
  • Strive
  • Horizon

• Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Kind

• The thing that all of us should strive for is to so live, keeping the commandments of the Lord, that He can answer our prayers. If we will live worthy, then the Lord will guide us - by a personal appearance, or by His actual voice, or by His voice coming into our mind, or by impressions upon our heart and our soul. And oh, how grateful we ought to be if the Lord sends us a dream in which is revealed to us the beauties of the eternity or a warning and direction for our special comfort. Yes, if we so live, the Lord will guide us for our salvation and for our benefit.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in the midst of so many catastrophes, appeared to inscribe themselves on the walls around me.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Age
  • Catastrophe
  • Fantasies

• The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Money
  • Liberty
  • Slavery

• Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Peace
  • Lies

• The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Great
  • Ground
  • Buried

• In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Peace
  • City
  • Rest

• Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Finish
  • Strive

• There's a sweet nirvana, Stirring on a jazzy, North Beach night

  

  William Henry Irwin
  • Night
  • Nirvana

• The vast unfathomable sea Is but a Notion-unto me.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Sea
  • Notion
  • Vast

• But our trials need not be spiritually fatal. They need not take us from our covenants or from the household of God.

  

  Neil L. Andersen
  • Needs
  • Trials
  • Household

• I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.

  

  William Klein
  • Photography
  • Needed
  • Balls

• Jason decided not to add that the best way to get him to focus on something was to tell him not to think about it.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Best Way

• Through the seas of dreams and the seas of fantasies, through the seas of solitudes and vacancies, and through myself, the deepest of the seas, I strive to thee, Nirvana.

  

  Sidney Lanier
  • Strive
  • Nirvana
  • Fantasies