Heraclitus Quotes

I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.

You don't ask about what can be seen.

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence.

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

Security is a kind of death.

Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.