Quotes About Transcendance

#1. Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

Camille Paglia

#2. Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies..

Jon Krakauer

#3. If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow ... Go to the cutting edge of your competency, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you're growing.

Madeline Hunter

#4. When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal.

Hendrik Poinar

#5. The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.

Anderson Cooper

#6. Anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you choose.

Wayne Dyer

#7. I am a bit of a control freak. If I get married, my wife isn't going out. No way. She's staying at home. She's not going out to clubs without me. I've already decided the rules, whoever she is.

Jermain Defoe

#8. We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we will then be some of the gentlest creatures that ever evolved.

Tom Althouse

#9. Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things

Ilyas Kassam

#10. A real secret is something which only one person knows.

Idries Shah

#11. History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.

J.R. Moehringer

#12. That's what it's like with Aiden. When he kisses me, I feel like I can see our future. It's like he has the power to send me mental messages with his mouth. His mouth. The source of all his power.

Jillian Dodd

#13. The cause of bandha and moksha (bondage and liberation) is our own minds. If we think we are bound, we are bound. If we think we are liberated, we are liberated ... It is only when we transcend the mind that we are free from all these troubles. (117)

Swami Satchidananda

#14. You were born rich and influential. You can do rich and influential in jammies and bunny slippers.

Starr Ambrose

#15. I had the perfect accident for the perfect idea. I was rendered immobile where the only thing I could do is mess with my computer.

Harry Knowles

#16. She'd been real melancholy in the fall - religious melancholy - it ran in her family. Her father worried so much over believing that he had committed the unpardonable sin that he died in the asylum.

L.M. Montgomery

#17. Suddenly, he felt a tremendous stirring of hope inside his heart; it filled his whole body with its warmth. I may not be that much of a broken man, he thought to himself.

H. L. Balcomb

#18. Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.

Madeleine L'Engle

#19. If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.

Madame Roland

#20. It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

John Godfrey Saxe

#21. There is something more here than embarrassment at being praised. The strengths 'I' have are not admissible to the arena of ability where they are socially useful; for once admitted, 'I'
my real self
would no longer have them.

Richard Sennett