Walter Farrell quotes

“Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.”
-- Walter Farrell

#Home Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Tolerance does not...do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with one long bar of rest. It does not attack error, it does not champion truth, it does not hate evil, it does not love good.”
-- Walter Farrell

#Hate Quotes #Errors Quotes #Issues Quotes

“Faith is obscure. By faith a man moves through darkness; but he moves securely, his hand in the hand of God. He is literally seeing through the eyes of God.”
-- Walter Farrell

#Moving Quotes #Eye Quotes #Men Quotes

“I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.”

“Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

“You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.”

“Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book Three: Being and the Meaning of Life”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”

“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”