Enlightening Quotes

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”
― Mark Twain

“The Earl of Lancaster loudly spoke, “Piers Gaveston, this court finds you guilty of treason, of sodomy and sedition as well as many other crimes against God! You shall be taken to Blacklow Hill, which shall by your place of execution, and you shall be put to death by two of my Welsh soldiers! May God have mercy upon your soul!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

“Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

“When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

“She said, “My people of Oxford, you are suffering from the administration of Hugh le Despencer the Elder and his son called Hugh le Despencer the Younger! I have issued warrants for their arrest and bringing to trial for crimes of High Treason against both men and their partner in crime called Edmund Fitzalan! I urge all of you to inform my soldiers of the where-abouts of these men!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

“The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.”
― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd

“Let us not be content with merely ‘formatting’ generations, but instead, focus on cultivating and enlightening them, ensuring independent thinking where acceptance is in pace with challenge and trust steers clear of gullibility. ("Skyward, over and above")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“So often, we want to be part of the big picture and “understand” what all the hassle is about in our lives. We feel we are missing out on the essential pieces of the puzzle, permanently struggling with the confrontation of the absence of awareness. Still, so often, we do not make the time nor have the guts to take the plunge to experience the enlightening inner transformation that gives us the insight we have longed for so badly. ("A character's hidden sides ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby

“Their society had been built to fail. Dynasties of power and parties of authority had on retrospect, staged countless renditions of the same play. Granted, an evolution had occurred. But the story unfolded the same way.”
― Rohith S. Katbamna, Down and Rising

“It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.”
― Margaret Wheatley

“I sometimes think with Moliere, Mr. Ridge, that ‘there is no folly equal to he who attempts to mend the world.’”
A single, unsuppressed laugh escaped him. “Yes,” he reluctantly replied, “but I cannot but help to attempt it, nonetheless.”
― Leslie K. Simmons, Red Clay, Running Waters

“They stood in the pool of lantern light, the house still around them. She placed a hand to calm his still heaving chest, the heat of his body fresh from travel. The coolness of her hand made him start, then he pulled her close. It was more than her body he needed.”
― Leslie K. Simmons, Red Clay, Running Waters

“Soon, she is dreaming:  I am reading a letter addressed to me by an unknown hand:  Dear Kate.  The moon rises over the tips of the mountain peaks as we sit here in the darkness thinking of you – and remembering.  Remembering the smells of flowers long ago dried and withered away, their faint fragrances hanging in the misty air.  Remembering whispers of times gone by.  As we have done in the past, we dig deep, looking for clues to your whereabouts.  Eyes peek out at us from within the stillness of the night – eyes filled with longing and desire – curious orbs floating like lanterns in the misty void.  Looking up from the letter still within her dream, Kate finds herself face to face with two golden beacons of love-filled radiance.”
― Kathy Martone, Victorian Songlight: The Birthings of Magic & Mystery

“...people who struggle against tyranny are more psychologically healthy than those who are docile and simply conform to current ways of thinking...there is much evidence that some of the most creative people in history were driven individuals who were terribly unhappy and out of sync with their social context. Creativity itself is a form of deviant behavior that requires individuals to break from usual assumptions and understandings in developing entirely new perspectives and approaches.”
― David Mechanic

“Life is an adventure. If you treat it as such, you'll enjoy it's happiness”
― Manny Segarra

“Toplumdaki tüm insanlar, bütün gruplar, daha doğrusu neredeyse bütün insanlar ve topluluklar kendilerinden daha iyi durumda olanları taklit eder. Peki, en iyi olanlar kimlerdir? Boş gezenler, zengin aylaklar. Kural olarak, bunlar, dünyada bir şeyler yapan insanların bildiklerini bilmezler. Böyle şeylerden söz etmek sıkıcıdır, bu yüzden aylaklar bu konuları mesleki meseleler olarak yaftalar ve konuşulmamasını isterler. Aynı şekilde, meslek dışı konulardan, yani operalardan, yeni çıkan romanlardan, kağıt oyunlarından, bilardodan, kokteyllerden, otomobillerden, at yarışlarından, alabalık ve turna avcılığından, yatlı eğlencelerden ve buna benzer şeylerden bahsetmek istediklerini söylerler. Bak burası önemli; işte bu konular da aylakların bildiği şeylerdir. Aslında aylaklar da bu konuları açarak kendi mesleklerinden bahsederler. İşin en ilginç yanı da tüm zeki veya zeki sayılabilecek insanların, aylakların tüm bunları kendilerine dayatmasına sessiz kalmalarıdır. Bana gelince, ben bir insanın en iyi bildiği şeyi duymak isterim, bunun adına ister mesleki banallık, ister başka bir şey de.”
― Jack London

“The true tragedy of life does not lie in dreaming big and falling short; it lies in dreaming too small and achieving those meager dreams. Sadly, this is precisely what is happening in today’s world. These toxic cultural environments encourage us to settle for dreams far beneath our true potential, motivating us to pursue vulgar and base desires that will never fulfill our genuine purpose in life.”
― ENRIC MESTRE ARENAS, THE MODERN WORLD AGAINST THE HUMAN SOUL: Exploring modernity's impact on the human spirit and well-being

“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us
Our thoughts make things beautiful
Our thoughts make things ugly
The whole world is in our own minds Learn to see things in the proper light”
― Swami Vivekananda

“Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways
Yet each one can be true”
― Swami Vivekananda

“Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself”
― Swami Vivekananda

“So imposing your modern-day perspective on a manuscript thousands of years old is the best way to understand the Bible? Choose an interpretation that makes you feel good?”
― Sigmund Brouwer, Flight of Shadows

“There are a million threads from the past intertwines to make the ropes and cables of the modern world.”
― Carl Sagan

“We are responsible for what we are

And whatever we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make ourselves

If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions so we have to know how to act”
― Swami Vivekananda

“We reap what we sow
We are the makers of our own fate
None else has the blame
None has the praise”
― Swami Vivekananda

“This is the first lesson to learn be determined not to curse anything outside not to lay the blame upon anyone outside but stand up lay the blame on yourself
You will find that is always true
Get hold of yourself”
― Swami Vivekananda

“Everything can be sacrificed for truth but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything”
― Swami Vivekananda

“All differences in this world are of degree not of kind because oneness is the secret of everything”
― Swami Vivekananda

“I for one thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve”
― Swami Vivekananda

“Do not hate anybody, because that hatred that comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle”
― Swami Vivekananda