Here are a few of my favorite quotes:
i love quotes They often sum up a lot of wisdom so wonderfully with just a few words. You might also like:
"Where people sing, sit down, bad people have no songs."
Johann Gottfried Seumes
Among some peoples, a person's wealth is measured by how many songs they have in their hearts.
(unknown author)
"It is the nature of clay that the closer it is to nature, the more powerful and magical it becomes.
"Whoever knows the secret of tones knows the mystery of the whole universe.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
"Between the vibrations of the singing voice and the pounding of the hearing heart
lies the secret of singing."
Khalil Gibran
"Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks."
Plutarch, ancient Greek writer.
"It is hard to teach someone when the cup is already full."
From the movie Avatar
"A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting."
"Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change."
“In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.”
Carlos Castaneda
"All the world is a stage and all men and women are mere players."
William Shakespeare
“The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God."
Paramahansa Yogananda
"The mind is the greatest obstacle on the spiritual path."
"Life is the greatest guru."
Irina Tweedie, The Path Through Fire
"Those who look outside dream. Those who look inside awaken."
"As long as you don't make your unconscious conscious, it will determine your life. We then call this fate."
"Enlightenment is not attained by imagining beings of light, but by consciously embracing the darkness."
"The greatest ideas in history come from the archetypes. The contents of the collective unconscious are the archetypes."
"Man always carries his whole history and the history of mankind with him."
Carl Gustav Jung
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."
"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths"
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."
Joseph Champell
"Show yourself as you are or be as you show yourself"
"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."
Rumi
"All creativity comes from a root cause that has nothing to do with rationality. Art is the sister of mysticism, that which I suddenly intuitively understand and bring into a picture or music. Creativity does not only exist in art. You flows through the entire evolution."
Willigis Jäger