Related Quotes

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

What is at stake is not economics, but culture; not the standard of living but the quality of life. Economics and the standards of living can just as well be looked after by a capitalist system, moderated by a bit of planning and redistributive taxation. But culture and, generally, the quality of life, can now only be debased by such a system.

Absence | Fault | Fault |

View Author

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The emotion you feel is always about the vibrational variance between where you want to be and where you are. If you're out of balance, there are only two ways to bring yourself into alignment - either raise your expectation to match your desire, or lower your desire to match your expectation.

Decision | Discipline | Important | Nothing |

View Author

Etel Adnan

My heart narrows fear of the following.

Absence | Doubt |

View Author

Étienne Gilson, fully Étienne Henry Gilson

Yet the fact that final causes are scientifically sterile does not entail their disqualification as metaphysical causes, and to reject metaphysical answers to a problem just because they are not scientific is deliberately to maim the knowing power of the human mind.

Absence |

View Author

Eugene Peterson

Exile (being where we don't want to be with people we don't want to be with) forces a decision: Will I focus my attention on what is wrong with the world and feel sorry for myself? Or will I focus my energies on how I can live at my best in this place I find myself?...I will do my best with what is here.

Discipline | Listening | Quiet |

View Author

Felix Adler

There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons.

Absence | Emotions | Evil | Vision |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

Too many chiefs, not enough warriors.

View Author

Italian Proverbs

When the danger is past God is cheated.

View Author

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Each day before the end of eve she sought her lover, nor would him leave, until the stars were dimmed, and day came glimmering eastward silver-grey. Then trembling-veiled she would appear, and dance before him, half in fear; there flitting just before his feet she gently chid with laughter sweet: 'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me! For fain thy dancing I would see!

View Author