Adepts Quotes

#1. Qualities like love and compassion are not just abstract virtues that are the property of saints and adepts. Anyone can develop these qualities in themselves by doing spiritual practices. As the Buddha said, Come and see.

Joanna Macy

#2. Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them ... They appear to me equally to perplex the adepts in science, to discourage the learner, as well as to cloud the beauty and simplicity of the atomic theory.

John Dalton

#3. As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown ...

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#4. The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it can also degenerate into buffoonery. So-called "difficult" feats can be executed by countless adepts, but the appearance of ease is achieved only by the chosen few.

August Bournonville

#5. Will and Love practiced
to invoke her Majesty Kundalini
In the world where Adepts die and bloom as Lotuses
The perfection of Union is Silence

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#6. Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

Susanna Clarke

#7. Witnessing the misadventures of supposedly enlightened adepts and their devotees can be depressing. But it can also be amusing.

Sam Harris

#8. Adepts of either Good or Evil are relatively rare in human shape. Most of us are still amateurs, which is fortunate for us all, because even moderate experts of evil can cause enough harm among humanity as it is.

Anonymous

#9. Even ymbrynes can't touch them. In the stories, only special adepts called librarians can see and handle them - and a librarian hasn't been born for a thousand years. If the library exists, all Jack would find there are empty shelves.

Ransom Riggs

#10. where power intersects with pleasure, there is danger. Adepts

Jacqueline Carey

#11. The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology seriously hampers the development of science and hides from students the field's real problems.

Vladimir L. Voeikov

#12. 40. My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells.
41. But since one is naturally attracted to the Angel, another to the Demon, let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the higher.

Aleister Crowley

#13. Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and cried, our eyes fail before the glory of thy countenance.

Aleister Crowley

#14. Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position.

Edward Abbey

#15. Damn ye, woman! Will ye never do as you're told?" "Probably not," I said meekly.

Diana Gabaldon

#16. My girlfriend just bought a ruler from Smiths. Heaven knows I'm measurable now.

Sixth Form Poet

#17. Someone as special as him is hard to find. Impossible to forget, impossible to deny! My desire for him becomes more and more unbearable. I feel like I can't breathe anymore!

Lily Amis

#18. Quidquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem ... Skye was used to hearing this phrase, which Mr. Penderwick translated loosely as look before you leap and please don't do anything crazy.

Jeanne Birdsall

#19. Guys like this make me want to believe in God.

Amie Kaufman

#20. This is not an act

Ellen G. White

#21. I just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you." That's what Chaz had whispered in my ear at some point during the wedding last night.
Then he'd whispered. "And you're not even wearing Spanx.

Meg Cabot

#22. Wisdom is worth more than gold.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. The first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me

Jacqueline Wilson

#24. The question you have to ask yourself is: Would you rather be happy and lose him or lose him and be miserable?

Amanda M. Lee

#25. This doesn't work out for us, Kricket, know that I've loved you from the moment I held you in my arms on Ethar, and every moment in between. I will love you even after my final breath.

Amy A. Bartol

#26. It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

Hilary Mantel

#27. Buddhism cannot be true to itself until Buddhists resolve their ambivalence toward nonhuman animals and extend the full protection of their compassion to the most harmless and helpless of those who live at our mercy in the visible realms.

Norm Phelps