Quotes of: Stevens Keyword

I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

The Practice of the Presence of God

The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.

Place of Help

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.

A Parallel Life

The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.

The Poet Prince

And whose rules will choose to you follow? God's? Or man's? You say you want to break the outmoded patterns and crate a new model? Then do it. That is part of your destiny, boy.

The Poet Prince

I certainly don't understand all these strange new feelings inside me--am I here because I love him, or because I owe him?

Prodigy

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

The Pilgrim's Songbook

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.

Philosophy of Science

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

Paradise Tales: and Other Stories

Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.

Personality Development Through Positive Thinking

Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.

Personality Development Through Positive Thinking

I'm starved." -Juli "How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth "Popcorn isn't food, it's popcorn." -Vicki

A Quick Bite

So to all who are situated as I am, I would say--Grow up as fast as you can.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

For the secret of friendship is a mutual admiration, and it is the realization or suspicion that that admiration is lessening on one side or the other that swiftly breaks the charm.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

The Rose Petal Beach

She'd met Colin on a Monday. She'd kissed him on a Friday. Twelve years later. She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.

Romancing Mister Bridgerton

I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.

The Rose Petal Beach