Dale Rex Coman famous quotes

The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.
-- Dale Rex Coman

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It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.
-- Dale Rex Coman

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The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure.
-- Dale Rex Coman

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There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.
-- Dale Rex Coman

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Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.

And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something. Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it's an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.