Floyd Dell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
-- Floyd Dell

#Being Free #Doing Nothing #Belief
I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.
-- Floyd Dell

#Pain #Ideas #Broadway
Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing any kind of knowledge upon them, and they will be curious about everything.
-- Floyd Dell

#Children #People #Want

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.
It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.
The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when youâ€™re apparently doing nothing, and those are very important times.
I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.
I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.
It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply...let me assure you that I share youR belief that innocent human life must be protected.

Floyd Dell famous quotes

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