quotes of day Sunday, October 4, 2026

“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!”

“If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.”

“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!”

“It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.”

“Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.”

“If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you becomeone with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen.If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender.”

“I don't judge. I'm not God. We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.”

“Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.”

“There is no desire that anyone holds for any other reason than that they believe they will feel better in the achievement of it. Whether it is a material object, a physical state of being, a relationship, a condition, or a circumstance - at the heart of every desire is the desire to feel good. And so, the standard of success in life is not the things or the money - the standard of success is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.”

“If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.”

“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”

“Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.”

“Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .”

“I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.”

“But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.”

“When you are sorrowful, look again.”