5,550 Quotes About Inspiring

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies.

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.