Charles L. Whitfield Quotes
Spirituality is about the relationships that we have with our self, with others and with the universe.Charles L. Whitfield
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
Francesca Annis -
We never see ourselves as others see us.
Oliver Hardy -
Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
Pankaj Mishra -
I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
T. C. Boyle -
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln -
When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
Katey Sagal
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Imelda Marcos -
It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
Ramana Maharshi -
The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
Ram Dass -
We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.
Bat for Lashes -
I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Pablo Picasso -
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?
Abraham Lincoln -
Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.
Fernando Pessoa -
First Theory.-There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus...
Maimonides -
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
Bertrand Russell
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Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.
Clarice Lispector -
When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer.
Seth Lloyd -
It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
Naveen Jain -
There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.
Carrie Snodgress -
Spirituality is about the relationships that we have with our self, with others and with the universe.
Charles L. Whitfield