“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.”
-Stephen R. Covey
“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it”
-Albert Einstein
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite”
-William Blake
“It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.”
-C. W. Leadbeater
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”
-Richard Dawkins
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”
-Camille Pissarro
“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.”
-Anthony de Mello
“Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters.”
-Addison Gayle, Jr.
“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.”
-Thomas Merton
“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
-Swami Sivananda
“Even a fish could stay out of trouble if it would just learn to keep its mouth shut.”
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.”
“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
-William Wordsworth
“When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.”
-Jean Rostand
“The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.”
-Arthur Koestler
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.”
-John Naisbitt
“Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation..”
-Eileen Caddy
“Love never claims, it ever gives..”
-Mohandas K. Ghandi
A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea.”
-Honore de Balzac quotes
“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”
“There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.”
“Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.”
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.”
“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because welove.”
“Love is a canvas pattern furnished by Nature, and embroidered by imagination.”
HAMLET
All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
Hamlet, 1. 2
In my mind's eye, Horatio.
Hamlet, 1. 2
Season your admiration for a while.
Hamlet, 1. 2
A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute.
Hamlet, 1. 3
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Hamlet, 1. 3
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Hamlet, 1. 3
It is a nipping and an eager air.
Hamlet, 1. 4
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet, 1. 5
By indirections find directions out.
Hamlet, 2. 1
This is the very ecstasy of love.
Hamlet, 2. 1
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Hamlet, 2. 2
More matter, with less art.
Hamlet, 2. 2
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
Hamlet, 2. 2
Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Hamlet, 2. 2
Polonius: My honorable lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.
Hamlet: You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal; except my life, except my life, except my life.
Hamlet, 2. 2
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Hamlet, 2. 2
A dream itself is but a shadow.
Hamlet, 2. 2
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.
Hamlet, 2. 2
He would drown the stage with tears,
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
Make mad the guilty, and appal the free,
Confound the ignorant, and amaze, indeed,
The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Hamlet, 2. 2
Bloody, bawdy villain!
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindles villain!
Hamlet, 2. 2
The play 's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Hamlet, 2. 2
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,-'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
Hamlet, 3. 1
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Hamlet, 3. 1
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Hamlet, 3. 1
O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
Hamlet, 3. 1
A robustious periwig-pated fellow.
Hamlet, 3. 2
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
Hamlet, 3. 2
Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee.
Hamlet, 3. 2
Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord.
Hamlet: As woman's love.
Hamlet, 3. 2
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Hamlet, 3. 2
Tis as easy as lying.
Hamlet, 3. 2
You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass.
Hamlet, 3. 2
Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?
Hamlet, 3. 2
'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood.
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.
Hamlet, 3. 2
Let me be cruel, not unnatural;
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
Hamlet, 3.. 2
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Hamlet, 3. 3
A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother,
As kill a king, and marry with his brother.
Hamlet, 3. 4
A rhapsody of words.
Hamlet, 3. 4
Speak no more;
Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul
Hamlet, 3. 4
A king of shreds and patches.
Hamlet, 3. 4
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
Hamlet, 3. 4
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
Hamlet, 4. 3
Lord! we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Hamlet, 4. 5
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
Hamlet, 4. 5
I loved Ophelia: Forty thousand brothers
Could not, with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum.
Hamlet, 5. 1
There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
Hamlet, 5. 2
I am justly killed with my own treachery.
Hamlet, 5. 2
