Jonathan > Jonathan's Quotes

“A billion stars go spinning through the night,
glittering above your head,
But in you is the presence that will be
when all the stars are dead.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

“You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.”
― Jonathan Edwards

“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
― Jonathan Edwards

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Most people who don’t feel content with their lives don’t know the reason why. Often they suspect that circumstances or other people are to blame. Even honest and self-aware individuals who know the problem lies inside of them still may have trouble getting to the root of the issue. They ask themselves, “Why am I this way?” They desire to change, but they don’t do anything differently so that they can change. They merely hope things will turn out all right—and they become frustrated when they don’t. Recognize that only when you make the right changes to your thinking do other things begin to turn out right in your life.”
― John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
― Jim Rohn

“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.”
― Jim Rohn

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
― Jim Rohn

“Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs”
― Jim Rohn

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.”
― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”
― Rimbaud