Quotes of: Traditional Keyword

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Fle...

Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America

Like the end, the myth of the beginning overlaps the cycle of birth and death, unfolding like a Möbius strip in ceaseless continuum, which is the paradox that sits above and beyond intellectual explanation in the realm where empirical logic halts.

Primordial Traditions Volume One

One cannot launch a new history — the idea is altogether unthinkable; there would not be the continuity and tradition. Tradition cannot be contrived or learned. In its absence one has, at the best, not history but ‘progress’ — the mechanical ...

Osip Mandelstam

T.S. Eliot deems dangerous the tendency "to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim to return to some previous condition which we imagine as having been capable of preservation in perpetuity"....

T.S. Eliot

Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.

Kyoto Machiya Restaurant Guide: Affordable Dining in Traditional Townhouse Spaces

Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are profession...

Bunker Roy

Liberals tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because of this, liberals don't pay much attention to why traditions developed or wonder about possible ramificat...

John Hawkins

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.

Victoria de los Angeles

As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family. Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love.

The Christmas Lamp

Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)

The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.

The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It

The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and a classification of said artist as subhuman. It is those supposed incapable of intelligence, training, or connection with...

How to Suppress Women's Writing

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition

Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the ...

Malaika Arora Khan

I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I tak...

Caroline Kennedy

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands. It's very old and ...

Jonny Greenwood