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#1

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”
― Voltaire

tags: philosophy-of-life

658 likes

#2

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday

17439 likes

#3

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

4066 likes

#4

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
― Socrates

tags: philosophy-of-life, psychology, relationships

334 likes

#5

“It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Maya

tags: philosophy-of-life

150 likes

#6

“Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself.
We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful moment we remember that we forget.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: orthodoxy, philosophy-of-life, theology

154 likes

#7

“We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit”
― Will Durant

tags: philosophy-of-life

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#8

“Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: philosophy-of-life

96 likes

#9

“You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.”
― Buddha

tags: buddha, confidence, lamp

204 likes

#10

“Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.”
― Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

tags: funny, gabriel-syme, lamp, order, tree

21 likes

#11

“Night fell, and her husband came to bed, and as soon as they had finished kissing and embracing each other, he fell fast asleep. Psyche was not naturally either very strong or very brave, but the cruel power of fate made a virago of her. Holding the carving knife in a murderous grip, she uncovered the lamp and let its light shine on the bed.

At once the secret was revealed. There lay the gentlest and sweetest of all wild creatures, Cupid himself, the beautiful Love-god, and at sight of him the flame of the lamp spurted joyfully up and the knife turned its edge for shame.

Psyche was terrified. She lost all control of her senses, and pale as death, fell trembling to her knees, where she desperately tried to hide the knife by plunging it in her own heart. She would have succeeded, too, had the knife not shrunk from the crime and twisted itself out of her hand.”
― Lucius Apuleius, Cupid and Psyche

tags: cupid, knife, lamp, psyche

18 likes

#12

“The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have inside, determines which lamp in the sky your heart will swoon.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: butterfly, heart, human-nature, lamp, life, light, living, moon, moth, sun

42 likes

#13

“A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp.”
― Amit Kalantri

tags: amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, amit-kalantri-writer, fitting, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, lamp, lamps, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, philosophy, requirements, resources, responsibility, roles, suitability, suitable, sun, the-sun, usefulness

5 likes

#14

“You exalt me Bati,
This is the message to the society,
Brightest day demands
struggling, suffering and sacrifice,
heroic labor would suffice.”
― Ankita Singhal, Aatish: Sensitizing Sentient Sentiments

tags: lamp, poem, poetry-life, poetry-quotes, sacrifice, society

3 likes

#15

“You are a lamp to give light to people; you must mount the lamp stand and shine bright! Don't hide your gifts; expose and share them freely!”
― israelmore ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

tags: bright, don-t-hide, expose, food-for-thought, free, freely, freely-share, gifts, give-hope, hidden, hide, hiding, israelmore-ayivor, lamp, lamp-stand, light, make-the-world-a-better-place, obscure, obscurity, people, share, share-freely, shine, shine-out, shining

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#16

“Love, the exotic bird,
came and went.
Heart forgot love.
Joy, the majestic willow,
wept and died.
Mind forgot joy.
Hope, the basement lamp,
fell and broke.
Soul forgot hope.
Self, the anxious caterpillar,
took flight and dropped.
Self forgot self.
You, my all,
became all my reasons.
Reasons left.
You left.
I never forgot.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: beloved, bird, break-up, breaking-up, caterpillar, desire, die, died, ex, exotic, forget, forgetting, forgot, heart, hope, joy, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, lamp, leave, left, love, love-poem, loved, lover, loves, loving, never, reason, relationship, remember, self, soul, union, unity, want, weep, willow

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#17

“As I walk , I light the lamp of my soul.
As I walk, I light the wick of another’s soul.”
― Sima Mittal

tags: enlighten, lamp, light, lighten, soul, walk, wick

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#18

“Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

tags: afterlife, agnostic, agnostic-atheism, agnostic-prayer, agnostic-quote, agnostic-quotes, agnosticism, agnostics, atheism, atheism-defined

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#19

“THE MOTH AND THE BUTTERFLY

When the sun rises over the horizon,
the butterfly emerges to dance in its brilliant light.
It flickers its colorful wings with euphoria,
To celebrate all the beauty found
in the majestic garden of life.

When the moon arrives in the darkness,
The moth appears at the disappearance of sunlight.
It flickers its pale wings as it shakes from its deep slumber,
To go search for food
To carry it through the night.

The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun,
while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon.
Every living creature responds to light,
But depending on the amount of light you have inside,
Determines which lamp in the sky
Your heart will swoon.

Poetry by Suzy Kassem”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: beauty, butterfly, celebrate-life, dance, darkness, evil, food, garden, good, lamp, light, moon, moth, night, poetry, self-serving, selfish, sun, sunlight, wings

22 likes

#20

“Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you.”
― Ricky Maye, Barefoot Christianity

tags: christian, faith, jesus, lamp, light, light-of-the-world, pastor, quotes, scarred, scars, sermon, spiritual, wisdom

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#21

“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade.

The inside flame burns evenly and is of the same quality as all the rest—hence all of us are equal in the absolute sense, the essence, in the quality of our energy.

However, some of the lamps are “turned down” and having less light in them, burn fainter, (the beings have a less defined individuality, are less in tune with the universal All which is the same as the Will)—hence all of us are unequal in a relative sense, some of us being more aware (human beings), and others being less aware (animal beings), with small wills and small flames.

The lampshades of all are stained with the clutter of the material reality or the physical world.

As a result, it is difficult for the light of each lamp to shine through to the outside and it is also difficult to see what is on the other side of the lampshade that represents the external world (a great thick muddy ocean of fog), and hence to “feel” a connection with the other lantern lamps (other beings).

The lampshade is the physical body immersed in the ocean of the material world, and the limiting host of senses that it comes with.

The dirt of the lampshade results from the cluttering bulk of life experience accumulated without a specific goal or purpose.

The dirtier the lampshade, the less connection each soul has to the rest of the universe—and this includes its sense of connection to other beings, its sense of dual presence in the material world and the metaphysical world, and the thin connection line to the wick of fuel or the flow of electricity that resides beyond the material plane and is the universal energy.

To remain “lit” each lantern lamp must tap into the universal Source of energy.

If the link is weak, depression and-or illness sets in.

If the link is strong, life persists.

This metaphor to me best illustrates the universe.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: allegory, existence, flame, lamp, lamp-shade, life, life-force, metaphor, shade, soul, universe, wick

19 likes

#22

“Life is made up of a few moments all strung together like pearls. Each moment is a pearl, and it is up to us to pick the ones with the highest luster. If we do not have time to do great things, take a few gentle moments and do small things in a great way.”
― Joyce Hilfer

tags: choice, choose, living-well, moments, pearls, pearls-of-wisdom

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#23

“Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: legends, monsters, pearls

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#24

“Value them; they are pearls of great price”
― PC Cast and Kristin Cast

tags: friends, house-of-night, marked, pearls, value, vampyres

16 likes

#25

“This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms
the diseased slums of a broken heart
into a palace made of psalms and gold.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

tags: broken-hearts, classic-poems, classic-quotes, compassion, faith, grief, healing-grief, hope, infinity, inspiration, inspiration-for-the-soul, inspirational-quotes, newtown-connecticut, palaces, pearls, pearls-of-wisdom, quotes-for-easter, rebirth, recovery, recovery-from-grief, resurrection, roses, savannah-authors-and-poets, sorrow, spiritual-transformation, spirituality, survival, transformation

25 likes

#26

“At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

tags: angel-poems, charlie-parker, creativity, diamonds, genius, jazz-appreciation-month, jazz-music, madness, national-poetry-month, pearls, poetry, poets, saxophone-players

58 likes

#27

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148750 likes

#28

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

6861 likes

#29

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

4490 likes

#30

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe

4061 likes

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