Top 100 Quotes About Byron

#1. The last story: God is everything, God is good.

Byron Katie

#2. Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Byron Katie

#3. A drop of ink may make a million think.

George Gordon Byron

#4. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

George Gordon Byron

#5. If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself ... that a tiger is an optical illusion
well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

Lord Byron

#6. Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Lord Byron

#7. Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.

Lord Byron

#8. I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day ...

Lord Byron

#9. Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

Byron Katie

#10. To be fair he is Lord Byron," Jane said. "I don't know many people who haven't slept with him at one time or another."
Jane Fairfax

Michael Thomas Ford

#11. How do I know that I don't need what
I want? I don't have it.

Byron Katie

#12. Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.

Byron Katie

#13. I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.

Robert Byron

#14. 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Lord Byron

#15. What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?

Byron Katie

#16. Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

Lord Byron

#17. Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

Lord Byron

#18. He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

Lord Byron

#19. Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

Byron Katie

#20. What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Lord Byron

#21. My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

Byron Katie

#22. Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

Byron Katie

#23. Damn description, it is always disgusting.

Lord Byron

#24. And mine's a bubble not blown up for praise, But just to play with, as an infant plays.

George Gordon Byron

#25. Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear ... these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry.

Kari Byron

#26. Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.

George Gordon Byron

#27. I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

John Clare

#28. Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.

Byron Katie

#29. All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

Byron Katie

#30. Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

Lord Byron

#31. The music, and the banquet, and the wine
The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments
The white arms and the raven hair
the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not.

Lord Byron

#32. The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

Byron Nelson

#33. When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.

Byron Katie

#34. Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it's true.

Byron Katie

#35. Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality, And dreams in their development have breath, And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.

George Gordon Byron

#36. And as long as we believe what we believe-until that is questioned-there's no progress as a human race. Again, we still have war. So, effective rehabilitation is to question what we believe. When that happens, everyone gets out of prison.

Byron Katie

#37. Everything that happens is God's will. When you realize that, you're home free.

Byron Katie

#38. Some children are afraid to die because their parents are afraid to die. My own children have come to understand that it's totally okay with me if they die. They don't have to live for my sake.

Byron Katie

#39. Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

Byron Katie

#40. Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.

Lord Byron

#41. I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

Lord Byron

#42. Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime,
The image of Eternity,
the throne
Of the Invisible! even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

George Gordon Byron

#43. In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Freeman Dyson

#44. They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

Lord Byron

#45. As soon seek roses in December, ice in June,
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff
Believe a woman or an epitaph
Or any other thing that's false
Before you trust in critics.

George Gordon Byron

#46. Lord Byron ! Of course!" cried Dr Greysteel. "I forgot all about him! I must go and warn him to be discreet." "I think it's a little late for that, sir," said Frank.

Susanna Clarke

#47. A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Lord Byron

#48. In general I do not draw well with literary men
not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

Lord Byron

#49. The cold, the changed, perchance the dead, anew, The mourn'd, the loved, the lost,-too many, yet how few!

Lord Byron

#50. Life is too short for chess.

Lord Byron

#51. Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Lord Byron

#52. Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Lord Byron

#53. Lord Byron doesn't have a life plan. He doesn't have a day plan. I once found a note that he wrote to himself that said: 'put on pants.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#54. Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

Lord Byron

#55. To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

Anton Chekhov

#56. I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work ... Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

Byron Katie

#57. This is the age of oddities let loose.

George Gordon Byron

#58. But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

Lord Byron

#59. Self praise is no praise at all.

Lord Byron

#60. Nothing belongs to me. Everything comes and goes. Serenity is an open door.

Byron Katie

#61. Critics are already made.

Lord Byron

#62. That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts.

Byron Katie

#63. I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

Byron Katie

#64. War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

Lord Byron

#65. Who then will explain the explanation?

Lord Byron

#66. Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.

Byron Katie

#67. The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

Lord Byron

#68. The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree
I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed.
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

George Gordon Byron

#69. But I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

Lord Byron

#70. Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

George Gordon Byron

#71. If I have any fault, it is digression

George Gordon Byron

#72. You either believe what you think or
you question it. There's no other choice.

Byron Katie

#73. In solitude, when we are least alone.

Lord Byron

#74. A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty

Lord Byron

#75. If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Lord Byron

#76. Just as I had formed a tolerable establishment my travels commenced, and on my return I find all to do over again; my former flock were all scattered; some married, not before it was needful.

George Gordon Byron

#77. Venice once was dear,
The pleasant place of all festivity,
The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

Lord Byron

#78. The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.

Byron Katie

#79. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

Lord Byron

#80. The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!
The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.

Lord Byron

#81. Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope;
Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey;
Because the first is crazed beyond all hope,
The second drunk, the third so quaint and mouthy.

George Gordon Byron

#82. The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before;
The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need
Of aid from them-She was the Universe.

Lord Byron

#83. I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.

Byron Dorgan

#84. I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.

Byron Katie

#85. I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

Lord Byron

#86. I see before me the Gladiator lie: / He leans upon his hand - his manly brow / Consents to death, but conquers agony.

George Gordon Byron

#87. Life is so simple: We walk; we sit; we lie horizontal. That's about it. Everything else is a story about what's going on while we're doing it.

Byron Katie

#88. A quiet conscience makes one so serene.

Lord Byron

#89. But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

Lord Byron

#90. When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.

Byron Katie

#91. My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

George Gordon Byron

#92. Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.

Lord Byron

#93. Although the universe itself isn't a conscious entity, it possesses the raw materials that, when properly set into motion, create consciousness. It has the ability to create intelligent life, which is capable of understanding the universe ... It can know itself indirectly

Arthur Byron Cover

#94. Of all tales 'tis the saddest
and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

Lord Byron

#95. In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.

Gore Vidal

#96. I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

Lord Byron

#97. I dont believe it wins championships. (It) gets you to the playoffs.

Byron Scott

#98. Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone
glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away
Is this the whole?

Lord Byron

#99. You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.

Byron Katie

#100. The power of thought is the magic of the mind.

George Gordon Byron

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