Quotes of: Histories Keyword

You are the culmination of all that ever was. You are the highest point of the vast pyramid of history and of your own life.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.

Mushroom Medicine: The Healing Power of Psilocybin & Sacred Entheogen History

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves.

Mostly Rapscallions: Salient Sillies about the Rich and Infamous in History

Light — i.e. space — is the structure of time, the essence of existence. The stuff of physics does not involve time. Orthodox contemporary physics sadly refers to this fact as “the problem of time.

Mythology & History

What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each page of the history.

My Life and Loves

Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of most of his empire.

The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History

Mr. President; give me back my country. Allow people to have their humanity. If you do not do this, history will never absolve you!

The Naked Power

I thought: This is not good. I though: I am not bad at kissing. Not at bad at all. I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe.

Looking for Alaska

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

The Lacuna

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

Long Walk to Freedom

Our parents' generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain, and wood; we cast it off. Even our national history is remembered in terms of the worst we did, not the best.

The Lighthouse

People forget history nowadays,that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.

Les Misérables

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

Letter to a Christian Nation

Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.

The Library at Night

In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.

Lima Nights

That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.

Leonardo and the Last Supper

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.

The Map of Life, Conduct, and Character

It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself.

The Summer I Turned Pretty