American Quotes

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Love is a friendship set to music.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

History does not always repeat itself.

Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.

Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.