English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Karen Armstrong Quotes

The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to understand that a silence that is not clamorous with vexation and worried self-regard can become part of the texture of your mind, can seep into you, moment by moment, and gradually change you.

Karen Armstrong

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

John Singleton quote: "I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing."
I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing. John Singleton
Mark Twain quote: "When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look,..."
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. Mark Twain
Evelyn Underhill quote: "The business and method of mysticism is love."
The business and method of mysticism is love. Evelyn Underhill
Oh, was not then all suffering time, was not all self-torment and fear time, did not everything difficult, everything hostile in the world vanish, was it not overcome as soon as one had overcome time, as soon as one could think it out of existence? Herman Hesse
The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage. Nelson A. Miles
If... if I didn't try to get my life moving on my own account, I should think it just absurd to go on living.' A look of smiling obstinacy had come into Marcelle's face. 'Yes, yes - it's your vice.' 'It's not a vice. It's how I'm made.' 'Why aren't other people made like that, if it isn't a vice?' 'They are, only they don't know it. Jean-Paul Sartre
Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met. Edith Wharton
At a time when she was engaged to Stilton Cheesewright, I remember recording in the archives that she was tall and willowy with a terrific profile and luxuriant platinum blond-hair, the sort of girl who might, as far as looks were concerned, have been the star unit of the harem of one of the better-class sultans. P. G. Wodehouse
Shut your mouth! You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare? J. K. Rowling
Max Eastman quote: "Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. Max Eastman
Warren Ellis quote: "At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was..."
At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers. Warren Ellis
Emily Giffin quote: "It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will..."
It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you... Emily Giffin
Perhaps it is true that the world is made new again every day but our minds are not. The clamp that holds me will not let me go. Jeanette Winterson
Stephenie Meyer quote: "I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice- a..."
I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice- a necessity. Stephenie Meyer
Ernest Hemingway quote: "THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIOIf I live long enough the luck..."
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIOIf I live long enough the luck will change. Ernest Hemingway