S.L. Wallace Quotes

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable.

There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

Im the lamest lame duck there could be.

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world

The wind, Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry, Came bluntly thundering, more terrible Than the revenge of music on bassoons.

Every one will be something worth while, something rare, something perfect.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.

The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over.

You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now.

Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connect with the universal mind.

A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not.

Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

I have been vain since birth.

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

Disillusion is the last illusion.

God and the imagination are one.

Never look at the visible supply; always look at the limitless riches in the formless substance and know that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.