"It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up."

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Spiritual Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Dimensions Quotes

“If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.”
“We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness.”

Source : Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.163, A&C Black
“Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a manâ€™s life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?”
“I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?”
“I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel”
“To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.”
“People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must,”
“One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.”

You may also like: