A Quote by Benjamin E. Mays

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

Benjamin E. Mays

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Benjamin E. Mays
American - Educator
August 1, 1895 - 1984

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The world has no circumference. It would certainly have a circumference if it had a centre, in which case it would contain within itself its own beginning and end; and that would mean that there was some other thing which imposed a limit to the world - another being existing in space outside the world. All of these conclusions are false. Since, then, the world cannot be enclosed within a material circumference and centre, it is unintelligible without God as its centre and circumference.

Nicholas of Cusa

Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this center, the living God. Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or deluded lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by specters and soothed by placebos. If there is no center, there is no circumference.

Edmund Clowney

There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

Giordano Bruno

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Mahatma Gandhi

Each dot: the center of a circle without circumference...

Frederick Franck

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

Voltaire

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

John James Ingalls

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Blaise Pascal

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.

Mahatma Gandhi

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Empedocles

That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.

Thomas Hardy

I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good.

Meister Eckhart

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Baltasar Gracian

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Theodor W. Adorno

One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

Maxwell Maltz

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