Top 32 Stephen Cope Quotes
#1. Other people's tears were more than Adrian could cope with. Did you put an arm round them? Did you pretend not to notice?
Stephen Fry
#2. In monasteries of old, the monk's dharma, his purpose in life, was said to be this: to support the choir. In Latin, propter chorum. Literally, his life was lived "in support of the choir." He was not a soloist. He was not a diva. He was part of a magnificent whole.
Stephen Cope
#3. We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
William Howard Taft
#4. Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#5. 2. Then (something else we usually forget) "listen for the response." It helps, says Bede, to "actively listen." To turn over every stone in your search for clues to the response. These responses usually come in subtle ways - through
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#6. Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.
Stephen Cope
#7. Marion's view allowed her experience with cancer to be full of meaning, to be replete with possibility, and it enabled Death to bring her more deeply into Life. She got the initiation.
Stephen Cope
#8. Selfless giving presupposes something - that there is a lumunious reality.
Frederick Lenz
#9. Donald Goellnicht. The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, 1984,
Stephen Cope
#10. The feminine comes to us in nature. Go outside. Look at the amazing waves of green, of lilacs, of blue mountains. We are in the presence of the manifestation right here. And she's reaching for you.
Stephen Cope
#11. This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.
Stephen King
#12. The answer seems to be that we make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. With the endless inventiveness of humankind, we grasp the very elements which are so divisive and destructive and try to turn them into tools - to dismantle themselves.
Stephen King
#13. The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel Castro
#14. We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.
Chevy Chase
#16. The goal of human life," says Ramakrishna, "is to meet God face to face." But the magic is this: if we look deeply into the face of all created things, we will find God. Therefore, savor the world, the body. Open it, explore it, look into it. Worship it.
Stephen Cope
#17. Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty.
Rory Stewart
#19. Take outside - freedom. What is it? What does it mean to a madman? I'll tell you, we go years through a lifetime with no love, no sex, no nice food and no nice clothes. So when it comes ... we choke on it! The kindness strangles us; we can't cope, so we make pigs of ourselves.
Stephen Richards
#20. There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.
Franz Wright
#21. No child is taught to kill, but he has to be taught to love, respect, honor and value, not only his own life, but the lives of his classmates, parents and teachers. He has to experience love and acceptance. He has to know his life has purpose and meaning. No amount of money can do that.
Cal Thomas
#24. Into the woods
you have to grope,
But that's the way you learn to cope.
Into the woods to find there's hope
Of getting through the journey.
Stephen Sondheim
#25. The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.
Charles Bukowski
#26. behind ourself, concealed - should startle most," wrote Emily Dickinson,
Stephen Cope
#27. Whether important policy decisions are made at Bohemian Grove or not,
it is at the very least disturbing to know that our leaders are gathering together
to worship a massive owl, dress in robes, and recite occult incantations.
Donald Jeffries
#28. But a spider was, after all, only a spider. Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there was nothing with which the human mind could not cope.
Stephen King
#29. Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.
Stephen Fry
#30. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.
Stephen Chbosky
#31. We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Stephen King
#32. Longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.
Stephen Cope
