Quotes
Quotes That Felt Like Checkpoints In The Journey Of Life
Quotes That Played The Role of a Guide
As I grew up, my knowledge increased, my experience of life increased, and I got exposed to many new things. All this resulted in me making a different sense of what was happening within and around me at different points in time.
I have saved a lot of quotes on my Instagram and Twitter over time. In this piece, I have put them in chronological order to depict how I evolved with time.
Let’s begin,
- Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so we may fear less. — Marie Curie
- When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level. — Brian Greene
- No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Any fool can know. The point is to understand. — Albert Einstein
- Faith can move mountains, but it freezes your mind. — Sadhguru
- I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes. — Thomas Mann
- Some think it’s in the wine, and others think it’s in the divine, but pleasantness is what everyone’s seeking. — Sadhguru
- The silence you feel in the Himalayas is not your silence, it belongs to the Himalayas. But if in the marketplace you can feel silence, you can be utterly at ease and relaxed, it is yours. Then you have a Himalaya in your heart. — Osho
- Raising the bar of attention is more important than information. With enhanced attention, you ultimately become conscious. — Sadhguru
- Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention. — Richard P. Feynman
- Life is in the details. Just look at a flower or an ant, how intricately every piece of creation is engineered! — Sadhguru
- The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life that is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. — Henry David Thoreau
- If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. — Thomas Aquinas
- Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. — Edward Abbey
Now, I have not read all the quotes there are. But these are the quotes I read over time and feel that they articulate the evolution of my understanding of life in a precise manner.
These quotes are like the truths of life revealed to me one by one by my curiosity. They all add up to form a framework on which my experience of life will be built by my compulsive responses and conscious actions.
I am making my curiosity work hard to find more such truths as it is always a good idea to have a solid and stable framework.
I was not sure whether to put this piece together or not, but then I remembered what Krishna says in the Gita,
The worst crime in the world is indecision.
