Quotes About Wordly

#1. Manchester is in the south of the north of England.
Its spirit has a contrariness in it
a south and north bound up together
at once untamed and unmetropolitan; at the same time, connected and wordly.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. He turned. "She would never marry for wordly advantage."
"Yet when she experiences the consequence she gains in such a marriage, she will feel compensated for giving up her freedom!"
"Her freedom!"
"I think her much at liberty.

Helen Halstead

#3. If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have honesty even then you will attain peace. And if you do not have honesty but lot of wealth even then restlessness will remain within.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

#5. Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives.

Frederick Lenz

#6. This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#7. The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

George Herbert

#8. As long as one is the doer of the actions, there is agnan [all other knowledge other than one's own true self, wordly knowledge]. Agnan is the cause for the worldly life.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not be kept back by anything low and mean; it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be entangled by any outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.

Thomas A Kempis

#10. Bliss can only come through gratitude, only through enlarging your heart with gratitude. Bliss is the reward of gratitude - the gratitude which is not just wordly or just spoken lip service, but is from the heart - the gratitude of the heart.

Nirmala Srivastava

#11. Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.

Richard Baxter

#12. Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

Anais Nin

#13. Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever recognises the worldly life, the trials and tribulations (of life) become slight for him.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#14. Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

Maureen O'Hara

#15. For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

Frank Sinatra

#16. The weirdest love stories are always the best

Margaret Mazzantini

#17. There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood's kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show.

Monica Potter

#18. The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.

Ice-T

#19. Trying to eliminate worldly temptations
only makes our spiritual growth limited.

Toba Beta

#20. I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good.

Lainie Kazan

#21. One will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent.

Dada Bhagwan

#22. Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Salvador Dali

#23. Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor.

Sally Armstrong

#24. Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you've been listening to - all the pieces of music you've ever heard.

Brian Eno