Quotes About Cause

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

Attachment," Buddha had said, "is the cause of grief.

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.

When we hold on to our opinions with aggression, no matter how valid our cause, we are simply adding more aggression to the planet, and violence and pain increase. Cultivating nonaggression is cultivating peace.

The law of karma is that we sow the seeds and we reap the fruit.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.

Yesterday's happenings are the reasons of Today's situation.

Improved health and life expectancy were not the cause of England's economic success but one of the fruits of its previous political and economic changes.

cause of the coma was still a subject of some debate, Dr. Villalobos had said, but most likely, it was caused by stress

This could be the cause of all modern neurosis . . . [;] the fact that we have no immovable identity, no hard facts. That everything we know as foundational truth is subject to change.

Something made them the way they are. Things do happen for a reason.

something always leads to something else.

Something always leads to something else. - John Puller

The perception of unfairness or injustice is the ultimate cause of most, if not all, anger... In fact, fairness is simply a perceptual interpretation... Your assumption that they are "being unfair" implies that your way of looking at things is universally accepted.

Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.

Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. only pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.

The lost and found the Cause hath crowned, The Day of Days is here.

Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men When for so slight and frivolous a cause Such factious emulations shall arise!

Now we are the masters of our fate, that the task which has been set us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our cause and an unconquerable willpower, salvation will not be denied us.