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Quotes About Source

Evidence and logic are tools we use to justify and flesh out our beliefs, but we are deceiving ourselves to think that they are the source of our beliefs. I will return to this idea, because it is crucial to understanding the process of belief change as well; and clearly, for our world to have a chance of surviving, a lot of beliefs are going to have to change.
~ Charles Eisenstein
Lord, as my Source and Creator, I will make time for You. Transform me so I may carry out Your wonderful plans for my life, amen.
~ Charles F. Stanley
Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.
~ Charles Francis Richter
I... was seized very early with a passion for literature, which has been the ruling passion of my life, and the great source of my enjoyments.
~ David Hume (1712–1776)
I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.
~ Grace Slick
Perfect humanity will show itself in the way we shall worship at the throne of God and the Lamb. The mystery shall remain an endless source of praise.
~ Graeme Goldsworthy
Let it be known there is a fountain that was not made by the hands of men
~ Grateful Dead
You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. The only way to defeat it is to build relationships with those people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.
~ Greg Mortenson
Your best source of new recruits is your own classes: "see one, do one, teach one" has worked well for volunteer organizations for as long as there have been volunteer organizations. Make sure that every class or other encounter ends with two sentences explaining how people can help, and that help is welcome.
~ Greg Wilson
In another portion of the teaching, Jesus states: "That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves."2 Ultimately, the love that lives within each of us is the source of all healing that we experience. To feel our love, however, we must be vulnerable to our pain. Hurt is one way for us to know how deeply we can feel. Our capacity to feel pain within ourselves, as well as have empathy for the pain of
~ Gregg Braden
After that, Thomas had told her, he felt that Allander drew his inspiration from some source beyond Thomas's comprehension.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
The doctor had asked him about the source of his anger, and Allander had exploded in a fit of verbosity. "So, Doctor," Allander had replied, "if that is what we can call you—you're certainly not a healer, but that's a different tale, isn't it? You'd like to know the source of my anger? I can speak your tongue. See if you can keep up.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
For all his frustrations and his chronic sense of being overburdened. He was proud of that; he'd always felt that it was worth doing a task properly if it was worth doing at all. That was part of his problem, of course; that was why he ended up with so much to do. It was also the source of his own particular pride: he knew--and he was certain they knew that there was no one else who could handle details such as these as well as he.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I want to find the root of needing to eat. And taste it: work of sweat / sleep.
~ Helene Cixous
There is hidden and always ready in woman the source; the locus for the other. The mother, too, is a metaphor. It is necessary and sufficient that the best of herself be given to woman by another woman for her to be able to love herself and return in love the body that was "born" to her. Touch me, caress me, you the living no-name, give me my self as myself.
~ Helene Cixous
Hitherto we have believed that we were helped and comforted by others, that we received joy from outside circumstances and surroundings; but it is not so. All joy and strength and good spring up from a fountain within one's own being; and if we only knew this truth we should know that, because God in us is the fountain out of which springs all our good, nothing that anyone does or says, or fails to do or say, can take away our joy and good.
~ H. Emilie Cady
Don't think you can relax your way to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing. 691 Don't dismiss a good idea simply because you don't like the source. 692
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.
~ James Joyce
In a hushed but serious tone, she said: "Galen, you know where these came from." "Mygeeto, perhaps," Galen said, distracted and still fascinated by the colorless kyber. "Possibly Ilum or Christophsis." "Not their source world," she said. "The size of them, the shape…" He finally turned to meet her wide-eyed gaze. "These could only have come from Jedi lightsabers.
~ James Luceno
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
~ Philip Larkin
All my indispositions have their source in my mind. It is when I am restless and unhappy that I become susceptible of cold, damp, heats, and such nonsense.
~ John Constable
All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.
~ Vinoba Bhave
The collapse of the Soviet Union could not have been a source of national pride for many in Russia. The one person who has capitalized on this the most has been Vladimir Putin.
~ Brandon Webb
Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events.
~ Giordano Bruno