Elias Chacour Quotes

#1. Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#2. She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.

Terry Pratchett

#3. as our lives become less and less genuine, we require bigger and bigger thrills to scare us, for just a moment, into feeling human again.

Johnny Truant

#4. It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

Rick Perlstein

#5. For something to occur, something needed to be lived in, approached, repelled by, consumed. The present, to exist, must be remembered, despised, and feared.

Philip Schultz

#6. Either we obey God's will who does not kill, or we make our own God's who allow us to make holy wars

Elias Chacour

#7. When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly; may the inner-light essence of the Buddha, and all the radiant awakened ones, continuously guide us onwards and upwards, on the path of spiritual enlightment.

Surya Das

#8. I believe that that foolish man of Galilee, Jesus Christ, had something to tell us, to tell me. Not considering his existence here, I would immediately go into despair. Immediately. And forgetting him, I would first despair of the institutional church and its hierarchy, and only later, of the Jews.

Elias Chacour

#9. If you're going to change a habit, you must BE the treatment.

Wayne Dyer