Trevor Alvut > Trevor's Quotes

“A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. But if you will contend that you were born to an inclination to such food as you have now a mind to eat, do you then yourself kill what you would eat. But do it yourself, without the help of a chopping-knife, mallet or axe, as wolves, bears, and lions do, who kill and eat at once. Rend an ox with thy teeth, worry a hog with thy mouth, tear a lamb or a hare in pieces, and fall on and eat it alive as they do. But if thou had rather stay until what thou eat is to become dead, and if thou art loath to force a soul out of its body, why then dost thou against nature eat an animate thing? There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare.”
― Plutarch

“Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.”
― Democritus

“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
― Pythagoras

“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
― Pythagoras

“Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“St. Augustine said, "The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties." There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day - seeing our ordinary life as greatly desirable, even wonderful, in the light of the terrible disruption that has taken place. Difficulty opens our eyes to pleasures we had taken for granted.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

“To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
― Marilyn vos Savant

“If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada

“When your concentration reaches it's highest point of being, then, and only then can there be a transformation.”
― Hsuan Hua

“Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don’t accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you a will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace. ”
― Ajahn Chah

“You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.”
― Ajahn Chah

“If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.”
― Ajahn Chah

“If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.”
― Ajahn Chah

“People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one. When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.”
― Ajahn Chah

“A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.”
― Geoff Nicholson, Hunters and Gatherers

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Jimi Hendrix

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
― George Carlin

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― Lord Byron

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Patience is a conquering virtue.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“Life is spiritual voyage.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.”
― Emma Smith

“Look at your body—
A painted puppet, a poor toy
Of jointed parts ready to collapse,
A diseased and suffering thing
With a head full of false imaginings.”
― The Dhammapada

“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
― Albert Einstein

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
― Albert Einstein