Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains. Shame on him who draws any attention to a rotted flesh that is already no longer mine: he is worshipping the worms nibbling it.
If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That’s the entrance to Oneness. That’s the space I entered when I met my guru.
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity’s place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
I’ve chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.
I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
It’s a really good place for me to be, on the golf course.
I’m very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.
You can’t really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
LinkedIn is increasingly becoming a very strong place for companies to develop their talent plans, their recruitment plans, and so there are ways in which we can track some of the momentum there.
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
Maybe I’m just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else.
Africa’s not a color – it’s a place.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
You get to a certain age and you start comparing and being uncomfortable in one’s body. And then you get to a place where you start to love yourself, accept yourself, celebrate and honor yourself.
There is no such thing as second place. Either you’re first or you’re nothing.
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.
I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it’s not a good place for that.
The world’s a mean place. It’s unfair, then it’s fair. It’s hateful, then it’s loving. It’s a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.
I will always hold a very special place in my heart for ‘Gilmore Girls.’
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want – I go to the bathroom.
To put yourself in another’s place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
The only reward in a public life is public progress. You stand back and say, ‘What did I get out of it?’ You look around, and the place is better, and that’s it.
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.
No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.
The world is such a small place.
Law enforcement officers are never ‘off duty.’ They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it’s the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it’s just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.
Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Old age is no place for sissies.
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
There’s a time and place for everything, but as I get older, I like finding those human moments and really connecting. Maybe I’m not as cool as I once was.
Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.
Prison hosts a lot of normal people, a lot of family men who were caught in a tight situation or in a dark place.
California is a fine place to live – if you happen to be an orange.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.
If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse.
Wherever you go, your memories from the place you grew up in always remain special.
Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.