Dan Wakefield famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.
-- Dan Wakefield

#Meaningful #People #Quests
Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.
-- Dan Wakefield

#Spiritual #Appreciation #Miracle
Clarity of mind, body and spirit is the key to creativity.
-- Dan Wakefield

#Creativity #Keys #Mind
There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.
-- Dan Wakefield

#Art #Appreciate #Silence
Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.
-- Dan Wakefield

#Christian #Religious #Drama
Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.
-- Dan Wakefield

#Sports #Team #War

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.
Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.
Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty...

Dan Wakefield famous quotes

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