Enlightening Quotes

For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.

The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being

Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

Because wisdom is innate, we can all enlighten ourselves.

...You know what I mean?

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

Love holds no grievances.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

This is to the world and how god damn beautiful it is.

I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.

I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.

I would like to enlighten people.

To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

If you can drink beer while doing it, it's not a sport

Nature is not human hearted.

Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.

Defeat serves to enlighten us.

God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.

For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.

I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I feel cradled by this universe and the immense love that comes from it.

I've found that falling doesn't always leave you fallen for.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Interest blinds some people,
and enlightens others.

You know, one of my - one of my best and, I think, most enlightening moments was when I was contacted by Michael Jackson. And he requested that I paint his portrait.

The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family.

It's my duty to enlighten people.

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to maintain attention and interest should be punishable by stoning. There is no excuse for tedium.