Ram Dass Quotes

American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

It is war now, and armies need symbols.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

That is when you need faith the most. Not when everything is going your way, not when you have much to be thankful for, but when there is darkness all around.

I see women who have this struggle between what they know is right, what they know is necessary, what they know is healthy, what they know is good for them, what they know is good for the work that they need to do, what they know is good for their bodies, what they know is good for their families - all too often ending that statement with the upturned question mark: "If it's okay with everyone?" Still asking, still requesting, still filing petitions for somebody to say that it's all right.

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.

Some people can find all the peace of mind they need in a good, satisfying conflict.

There is a lot of hard work that needs to be done

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

Wake up, life does get tough. No need to stress, holds you back too much.

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in

A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

My tattoos are reminders to hang in there when things get rough.

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

You have to fight for what you need to fight for.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.