Michael > Michael's Quotes

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

“Then the Queen of Fantasy drew me toward her with a look of enchanting and kissed my burning lips, say: "Say that who passes not his days in the region of dreams is the slave of those days.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran

“The two lovers walked among the willow trees, and the oneness of each was a language speaking of the oneness of both; and an ear listening in silence to the inspiration of love; and a seeing eye seeing the glory of happiness. "Astarte has brought back our souls to this life so that the delights of love and the glory of youth might not be forbidden us, my beloved.”
― Kahlil Gibran, A Tear and a Smile

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
― Rumi

“Young lad,may you be an old man,listen to my advice.
Love does not put much stock on wisdom:
deny it if you desire to caress the tresses of the beloved.”
― Hafez

“Every person is a world to explore.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, How to Love

“Everything is impermanent. This moment passes. That person walks away. Happiness is still possible.”
― Hanh, Thich Nhat

“If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia”
― Thomas S. Szasz

“Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.”
― Vine Deloria Jr.

“When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.”
― Vine Deloria Jr.

“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am”
― John Newton

“If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God’s will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham’s bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home.”
― John Newton

“… the paradox is one of our most valued spiritual possessions...”
― C.G. Jung , The Collected Works of C.G. Jung

“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution”
― Aldous Huxley

“In the province of the mind what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experimentally and experimentally. When so found these limits turn out to be further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits.”
― John C. Lily

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
― Marcus Garvey

“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is our only ruler; sovereign.”
― Marcus Garvey

“great principles, great ideals know no nationality.”
― Marcus Garvey, Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
― Booker T. Washington

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed”
― Booker T. Washington