Laurence Sterne Quotes

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.

Choose to fully and graciously live life as it comes. The richest rewards by far are the ones to which you most sincerely give of yourself.

Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!

Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion

He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was

To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

....the sea changes color, but the sea does not change.

No practice exists in isolation.

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.