Alexandra David Neel Quotes

#1. Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

Alexandra David-Neel

#2. The monk, Gregory the Great, tells how a nun, in her greed, ate a lettuce without first making the sign of the cross to protect herself against the evil spirits that hide between its leaves, and so she became possessed by a demon. Greetwell

Karen Maitland

#3. To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

Alexandra David-Neel

#4. All things are aggregations of atoms that dance & by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces also changes ... Each atom perpetually sings its song, and the sound at every moment creates dense subtle forms.

Alexandra David-Neel

#5. Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Alexandra David-Neel

#6. Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

Alexandra David-Neel

#7. One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

Alexandra David-Neel

#8. If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you're a dumb-ass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you're a Republican.

Bill Maher

#9. Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Alexandra David-Neel

#10. Take the risk of thinking for yourself , much more happiness , truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way ..

Christopher Hitchens

#11. As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul ...

Alexandra David-Neel

#12. When you say three things, you say nothing.

Chip Heath

#13. Guard against idols
yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Alexandra David-Neel

#14. Do not let your peace depend on what people say of you ... True peace and joy is to be found in [Jesus] alone.

Thomas A Kempis

#15. Do something: You can always correct something but you can never correct nothing.

Dale C. Bronner

#16. The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet ...

Alexandra David-Neel

#17. I am a wild orchid of comedy, so I can only do well under specific conditions ... There are people who I think can do any room, and do stadiums and thousand-seat theaters, and then there are people like me who just perform for my parents.

Maria Bamford

#18. Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

Alexandra David-Neel

#19. Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

Alexandra David-Neel

#20. A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

William Walton

#21. Fashion is a reflection of your personality, so have fun and experiment.

Pixie Lott

#22. You don't need proof. You just need an inclination

Mary Roach

#23. The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

Alexandra David-Neel

#24. Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

Alexandra David-Neel

#25. The servants of God ... whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

Thomas Aquinas

#26. There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

Alexandra David-Neel

#27. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

#28. The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

Bertrand Russell

#29. "To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

Alexandra David-Neel

#30. I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.

Albert Einstein

#31. Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.

Alexandra David-Neel