All Embracing Quotes

#1. I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

Charles Lamb

#2. We have inherited from our forefathers the keen
longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

Erwin Schrodinger

#3. Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance
in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

H.L. Mencken

#5. Sometimes when you need to feel the all-embracing nature of God, paradoxically you need to hang out in the ordinariness, in daily ritual and comfort.

Anne Lamott

#6. In order than everything should be reduced to the same level, it is first of all necessary to procure a phantom, its spirit, a monstrous abstraction, an all-embracing something which is nothing, a mirage
and that phantom is the public.

Soren Kierkegaard

#7. If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans ... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.

Wilfrid Noyce

#8. The mercy of God is an all-embracing mercy and it breaks down the barriers that man erects.

Alistair Begg

#9. President Howard W. Hunter explained that the gospel of Jesus Christ, which gospel we teach and the ordinances of which we perform, is a global faith with an all-embracing message. It is neither confined nor partial nor subject to history or fashion.

Robert L. Millet

#10. Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.

Dave Davies

#11. The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.

Sri Aurobindo

#12. Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

Richard Crashaw

#13. There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

Stephen Dunn

#15. And then I realized how powerless I was to revoke my own joke when throughout my life as a whole I was involved in a joke much more vast (all-embracing for me) and utterly irrevocable.

Milan Kundera

#16. My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness

Austin Osman Spare

#17. My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

Giovanni Boccaccio

#18. If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#19. I am deeply concerned that Sri Lanka, despite the opportunity provided by the end of the war to construct a new vibrant, all-embracing state, is showing signs of heading in an increasingly authoritarian direction.

Navi Pillay

#20. Jaded! With all this around us". He waved an all- embracing arm at the pikes and fells and howes on every side.

"We would never see a hundredth of it if we went out every Sunday for the next ten years".

Rebecca Tope

#21. Man is naturally humble, naturally grateful, naturally guilty, naturally transcended, naturally a sufferer; he is small, pitiful, weak, a passive taker who tucks himself naturally in a beyond of superior, awesome, all-embracing power.

Ernest Becker

#22. You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.

Elizabeth Evatt

#23. The superior man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

Confucius

#24. The authority that God has given you over Satan is ample, wide-ranging, thorough, all embracing

Pedro Okoro

#25. Red is an all-embracing colour,' said the bishop. 'How fortunate that those who despise it in a bonnet revere it in a hat.

Victor Hugo

#26. Someone appeared, with gentle and penetrating eyes, who - with no exchange of words - understood; and before whose glance her eyes dropped. The someone had no face, no form, no voice, no odour. He was a simple Presence, an all-embracing tenderness with strength and a promise of rest.

Toni Morrison

#27. In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man ... '

Carl Jung

#28. There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

Norman Foster

#29. The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military ... The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.

Majid Khadduri

#30. Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#31. Cervantes, the soldier and adventurer, rose above the prejudices of his class, while Shakespeare never lifted his eyes beyond the narrow horizon of the Court to which he catered. It was love that opened Cervantes's eye, and it is in all-embracing love that Shakespeare was deficient.

William Shakespeare

#32. Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare

Anton Ehrenzweig

#33. Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

Catherine Doherty

#34. Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.

Gautama Buddha

#35. Love is not the demand of another, nor is it the need of another. It is all-embracing acceptance, is it not?

Ryan Asmussen

#36. God created me - and you - to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion - namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

John Piper

#37. Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles ... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

Abraham Kuyper

#38. Ask ... what it is about all-embracing 'systems' of thought that leads inexorably to all-embracing 'systems' of rule.

Tony Judt

#39. I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.

Peter Greenaway

#40. When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#41. God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

Mahatma Gandhi

#42. So do extremes meet; and such is sometimes the all-embracing capacity of the approval of a fool!

Wilkie Collins

#43. Rightly understood, it is an all-embracing, intrusive question, and for this reason many prefer to dodge it or to proceed as if it were an abstract, theoretical question.

Thomas C. Oden

#44. I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time.

David Whyte

#45. The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.

Thich Thien-An

#46. Knowledge of the eternal is all-embracing. To be all-embracing leads to righteousness, which is majestic.

Laozi

#47. My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

Arnold Bennett

#49. Running a successful company is all about embracing the talent of the individuals you have at your disposal. if that's where your talents and your interests lie, then you structure the company to enable that ... Christian Grey

E.L. James

#50. His young wife - thirty years his junior - ran toward him with open arms. Rather than simply embracing him, she leaped onto him, wrapped all four limbs around him like a squid, and clung.

Daniel Arenson

#51. Cougars are all the rage! I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture. That's when a woman's in her peak. That's when she's hot. She's already been through all of the junk. She's confident. Secure with who she is.

Vivica Fox

#52. Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

Aristotle.

#53. The serenity of truth and the peace of death can be only secured through a largeness of contempt embracing all the profitable servitudes of life. He

Joseph Conrad

#54. I decided to start embracing and wearing my natural hair, but there was only one problem; I didn't know what to do with it or how to style it. Growing up, all I knew was my relaxed, processed hair, so I had to go through this learning phase.

Kimberly Elise

#55. Caring was all about surrender, in the end. The opposite of control. The difference between strangling someone and embracing them.

Cara McKenna

#56. Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.

Roland Allen

#57. Only by embracing all that you regret and not denying it, only by placing the highest value on what you've gained because of all you've lost, does regret lose the ability to cripple you.

Augusten Burroughs

#58. The shadow of the highest evil intermingled with the light of the highest good. Maybe all lives are filled with this. Maybe it is always a choice between embracing the darkness of one or the saving grace of the other.

Lisa Wingate

#59. I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#60. I believe I owe all the best parts of my adulthood to embracing my imperfections and showcasing them.

Beth Ditto

#61. This city, All they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We're all a work in progress as men, And you still love us. And I thank you so much for embracing us.

Kevin Durant

#62. Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.

Taisen Deshimaru

#63. Embracing love ethic means that we utilize all dimensions of love
"care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect and knowledge"
in our everyday lives.

Bell Hooks

#64. We're all creatures of light and darkness. Embracing your darkness won't kill the light. Goodness is stronger than that.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#65. If tonight is my last, I would run towards the sea, wildly swim the tides, the jump up the hills, flounder the cliffs and take all big strides, for I am a wanderer, awed by nature's charm who would love to breathe his last in its embracing arms.

Arvind Parashar

#66. I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.

Christina Aguilera

#67. It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

Vladimir Lenin

#68. We all know Sen. Feinstein is out of touch, but just to make it worse, by not embracing today's technology, she isn't even connected. Out of touch and disconnected.

Elizabeth Emken

#69. I'm really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee, for instance the Vol Walk, running through the T, singing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida next year. It will be a blast

Lane Kiffin

#70. A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here waiting our response to His Presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality.

A.W. Tozer

#71. When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

Dhani Jones

#72. She has this passion to learn everything she can about life, and it is so amazing to see everything through her eyes. She's guarded in a way that even she can't explain, but she is embracing this life and giving it all. It's beautiful. She's beautiful.

Abbie Chandler

#73. I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#74. I'm embracing the punk. There's so much punk style in everything we do and wear everyday; we just never have the chance to do it all the way.

Hanneli Mustaparta

#75. Enjoy life by embracing the sadness as well as the happiness. It's all a part of being on this earth."
~ Mrs. Pinkerton

Michelle Stevens

#76. There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

Emmylou Harris

#77. Latinos come from different countries, and they tend to segregate with only their country instead of embracing all the other countries, because in reality, all the Latinos are going through the same experiences of discrimination and racism.

Andrea Navedo

#78. Every marriage is weird! That's what it is - we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal.

Richard LaGravenese

#79. Peace is self-examination and being all right with what you see. Freedom is being able to open up to others without the worry of persecution. Happiness is seeing others for who they are and embracing the differences.

Leeann Smith

#80. Authentic Christianity is not just about keeping and protecting the faith and keeping the rules. It is even more than living to deepen your relationship with Jesus. Authentic Christianity, the real deal, is about embracing all of these important elements.

Joseph Stowell

#81. Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better.

J'son M. Lee

#82. How liberating it must be to stop evading, questioning, or complaining about your trials and start embracing them as opportunities to draw closer to God, to realize that even if Jesus is all you have, He is enough

Colleen Carroll Campbell

#83. It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that one is an insect, crawling across a page of the Encyclopedia Britannica, knowing only that something vast is passing by beneath, all without your sensing more than a yawning vacancy.

Gregory Benford

#84. We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

Jane Goodall

#85. By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe.

David Deida

#86. Choosing succulence is a deliberate act of personal revolution. It means waking up! Embracing your true self, studying your patterns, and letting out your most alive self. We all have one.

SARK

#87. The pantheist "God" is the community of all beings. It is not a He, or a She, or an It. It is a "We," and a we in the broadest and most inclusive sense, embracing everything from rocks and algae, through butterflies and humans, to suns and planets.

Paul Harrison

#88. The future arches above us all like a giant question mark, looming or embracing by whims and turns.

Gail Godwin

#89. Life is all about embracing each moment that is given to you.

Evangeline Lilly

#90. Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#91. No matter what your hair looks like once it's wet, it's about embracing it and loving yourself for you and all that that entails.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

#92. Walking in darkness didn't mean having to become one with it, did it? Could we not live with our inner natures without embracing the true evil we all are privy to? Humans are no less evil than the worst of vampires at times. Surely right and wrong couldn't be so perfectly cut and dried.

Trina M. Lee

#93. Embracing our dark side gives us a new found freedom to be with the darkness in others. For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you.

Debbie Ford

#94. Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.

Doug Aitken

#95. If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.

Stefanie Schneider

#96. We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

Allan Savory

#97. His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.

William Wordsworth

#98. It's possible to transform the violent energy of our time into a culture of kindness.
All things are possible through the openness of our mind, the gentleness of our spirit, and the act of understanding and embracing.

Lily Yeh

#99. God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below; but not depressed; wholly above, presiding; wholly without, embracing; wholly within, filling.

Madeleine L'Engle

#100. We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.

Robert Reich