View Quotations by:
Authors Subjects Tag Country Date RangeQuotations by Subject
First
* Back
* Next
* Last
Related Topic(s): Experience; Feminine; Love; Poetry; Poets; Shadow; Vulnerability; Wisdom
|
Every poet, I suppose, should fall madly in love at least once in her life, so that she may come to know the shadow side of the feminine human experience, plumb the depth of her own vulnerability and emerge the wiser.
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
|
|
Related Topic(s): ART; Experience; Trauma
|
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
Rainer Maria Rilke
|
Rene Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 - 29 December 1926)""better known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German: [ˈÊaɪnÉ maˈÊiËa ˈÊɪlkÉ™])""was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical". His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers.
Rilke was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, travelled extensively throughout Europe, including Russia, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and in his later years settled in Switzerland""settings that were key to the genesis and inspiration for many of his poems. While Rilke is most known for his contributions to German literature, over 400 poems were originally written in French and dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Among English-language readers, his best-known works include the poetry collections Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus), the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title Letters to a Young Poet (Briefe an einen jungen Dichter). In the later 20th century, his work has found new audiences through its use by New Age theologians and self-help authors, and through frequent quoting in television programs, books and motion pictures. In the United States, Rilke is one of the more popular, best-selling poets""along with 13th-century Sufi mystic Rumi and 20th-century Lebanese-American poet Khalil Gibran.
Author Information from Wikipedia |
|
Related Topic(s): Adventure; Boredom; Excitement; Experience; Living; Travel
|
This body longs for itself far out at sea, it floats in the black heavens, it is a brilliant being, locked in the prison of human dullness....
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
Robert Bly
|
An American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States |
|
Related Topic(s): Education; Experience; Learning; New; Teaching; Unknown; Wisdom
|
When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake,
We place our feet where they have never been.
We walk upon the unwalked. But we are uneasy.
Who is down there but our old teachers?
Water that once could take no human weight--
We were students then-- holds up our feet,
And goes on ahead of us for a mile.
Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness.
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
Robert Bly
|
An American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States |
|
Related Topic(s): Experience; Justice; Last Words; Law; Letting Go; Patience; SELF AWARENESS; The_frozen_sea_inside_us
|
Before the law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper there comes a man from the country and prays for admittance to the Law. But the doorkeeper says that he cannot grant admittance at the moment. The man thinks it over and then asks if he will be allowed in later. "It is possible," says the doorkeeper, "but not at the moment." Since the gate stands open, as usual, and the doorkeeper steps to one side, the man stoops to peer through the gateway ...
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
| Franz Kafka |
Franz Kafka was a major fiction writer of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Bohemia (presently the Czech Republic), Austria–Hungary. His unique body of writing—much of which is incomplete and which was mainly published posthumously—is considered to be among the most influential in Western literature. (From Wikipedia) |
|
Related Topic(s): Choices; Decisions; Experience
|
Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
|
|
Related Topic(s): Experience; FAILURE; Falling Down; Learning; Mistakes
|
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
|
|
Related Topic(s): Experience
|
Experience teaches only the teachableÂ…
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
|
|
Related Topic(s): Experience; Language; Memory; Words; Writing
|
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
|
|
Related Topic(s): Experience
|
From our acts and from our attitudes ceaseless inpouring currents of sensation come, which help to determine from moment to moment what our inner states shall be."
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
|
|
Related Topic(s): DISCOVERY; Experience; Insight; Serendipity
|
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
|
|
Related Topic(s): Experience
|
Few men are worthy of experience. The majority let it corrupt them.
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
|
|
Related Topic(s): Entertainment; Experience; Positive Experiences
|
I think the next generation of entertainment is experiential, where people go out of the house and go and get a unique experience.
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
| Mark Cuban |
Mark Cuban is an American business magnate and investor. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks,[4] Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of the HDTV cable network AXS TV.[5] He is also a "shark" investor on the television series Shark Tank. In 2011 Cuban wrote an e-book, How to Win at the Sport of Business, in which he chronicles his life experiences in business and sports. Bio from wikipedia |
|
Related Topic(s): Contentment; Experience; Faith; God; God; Gods; Good Will; Grace; Heart; Love; Presence; Prophets; Reincarnation; Religion; Spirituality; Thought; Wisdom
|
Though religions have distinct names and doctrines, in essence, all are one. They emphasize the common core. Unfortunately, the apparent differences amongst religions have subverted the amity of all men. All religious dogmas, except a few, can easily be harmonized and reconciled. The experience and wisdom of great seers who expounded universal love are not appreciated, accepted, and respected. The same God is extolled and adored in various nam...
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
| Sathya Sai Baba |
Sathya Sai Baba (born as Sathya Narayana Raju; 23 November 1926 - 24 April 2011) was an Indian guru, and philanthropist. He claimed to be the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi. Sai Baba's materialisations of vibhuti (holy ash) and other small objects such as rings, necklaces, and watches, along with reports of miraculous healings, resurrections, clairvoyance, bilocation, and alleged omnipotence and omniscience, were a source of both fame and controversy.
Author Information from Wikipedia |
|
Related Topic(s): Creativity; Imagination; Inspiration; Macros --peak Performance; Power; Timing; Writing
|
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, --when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times."
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society.
Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. As a result of this ground breaking work he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence". Considered one of the great orators of the time, Emerson's enthusiasm and respect for his audience enraptured crowds. His support for abolitionism late in life created controversy, and at times he was subject to abuse from crowds while speaking on the topic. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man."
Author Information from Wikipedia |
|
Related Topic(s): Ideas; Inspiration; Love; Mentor; Power
|
I'm jealous of anyone who makes a light bulb flash on in your head.
No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections, There are always connections; you have only to want to find them.
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
Umberto Eco
|
Umberto Eco, OMRI (Italian: [umˈbɛrto ˈɛko]; born 5 January 1932) is an Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. He is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 historical mystery novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. He has since written further novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His most recent novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, was a best-seller.
Eco has also written academic texts, children's books and many essays. He is founder of the Dipartimento di Comunicazione (Department of Media Studies) at the University of the Republic of San Marino, President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici (Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities), University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei (since November 2010), and an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.
Author Information from Wikipedia |
|
Related Topic(s): Drill; Enlightenment; Illumination; Inspiration; Learning; Rote; Teaching
|
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
|
|
Related Topic(s): Inspiration; Leadership
|
He is the Sun In whose track every heart must follow.
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
|
|
Related Topic(s): ART; Awake; Awakening; Inspiration; Science; Spirit
|
The most important function of art and science is to awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive.
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
|
|
Related Topic(s): Competition; Inspiration
|
You don't have to blow out my candle to make yours brighter.
[full quote] [add comments]
[Rate] [Share]
|
| Unknown |
Research useless. |
|
First
* Back
* Next
* Last
Return to Subject List
