Top 1200 Universal Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

I'm a storyteller who wants to tell untold, meaningful, universal stories in unforgettable ways. I want to do it all, study it all, and find my place in it.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

Design has become a universal medium for expressing ideas, raising fundamental questions, and addressing social challenges.

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.

I made 'Whale Rider', I saw that to be specific and authentic is to be universal, and I've continued to work in an identical way ever since.

The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.

You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.

It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.

Clothing for larger sizes doesn't have to look frumpy and old; it should seamlessly integrate fashion - like Universal Standard.

Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

Governance under a chief executive elected by universal suffrage will give fresh impetus to economic and livelihood policies.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.

Frankly, it was only after 'Clone Wars' got cancelled that there seemed to be this universal love-fest from fans.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

From a still wider and more comprehensive point of view, universal life itself appears to us as a struggle between multiplicity and unity - a labor and an aspiration towards union. We seem to sense that - whether we conceive it as a divine Being or as a cosmic energy - the Spirit working upon and within all creation is shaping it into order, harmony, and beauty, uniting all beings (some willing but the majority as yet blind and rebellious) with each other through links of love, achieving - slowly and silently, but powerfully and irresistibly - the Supreme Synthesis.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.

Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Here's the thing: we don't write music for a universal statement; we just share our experiences. And that's all it is. It's always raw and very authentic.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity.

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.

To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.

I certainly witnessed bullying as a teen in both a small and a big school setting. I feel like it is a universal topic.

The law of gratitude is universal. It is a natural function of the soul. All things upon this earth or in the universe operate and respond to love and praise.

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

Why is this soe long detaind in a dark manuscript, that if printed would be a Light to the World, & a Universal Blessing?

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe.

A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

I'm not prescribing non-doing as a universal response to our problems. Sometimes, something obviously needs to be done. And we retreat into a spiritual or meditative state that we fancy up by calling it mindfulness, but really it's an unhealthy detachment and a shrinking back from life. But culturally, it's much more common to be trapped in habits of reaction, whether on a systemic level or on a personal level. That's where the non-doing comes in, which is something that we don't really have room for. I think that it's something we need to embrace as part of the creative process.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

We must create a digital platform that connects New Yorkers with training, basic skills and a universal job application.

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.

One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love

I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.