Meditation Quotes

Everyone should have a passion.

If you’re passionate about something,

you’ll work hard at it.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

You don’t have to be great to start,

but you have to start to be great.

The truth will set you free,

but first it will piss you off.

There comes a time

when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge

but can never prove how it got there.

What I am looking for is not out there,

it is in me.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward,

and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid,

and I think a great deal of that grew out of

the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Sometimes one pays

most for the things one gets for nothing.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Leave it as it is.

The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Independence is happiness.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Success doesn't just happen;

it's earned.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old,

but of the natural.

Vulnerability in my songs is what connects people to the music.

I’ll take a child that has talent and a great mother over a child

that has world class talent and a mother that’s a nut.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,

adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Keep raising your words,

not your voice.

It is rain that grows flowers,

not thunder.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition

that morality can be maintained without religion.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that

national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.