Quotes of C. Northcote Parkinson

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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

- C. Northcote Parkinson

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“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ If you sow kindness, you will reap love. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! ”

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ”

- Unknown

“ I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ Love is like a gold mine, The deeper you dig in your heart, the more love you receive. ”

- Bzam

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ Visionary decisionmaking happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ”

- Gandhi

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

“ The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it. ”

- Donna Goddard

“ Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. ”

- Evanescence

“ Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind. ”

- Ron Ben Israel

“ You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end. ”

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling. ”

- Anthony de Mello

“ the saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you've made them your eternity. ”

- Sanober Khan

“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman

“ Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping. ”

- Kilroy J. Oldster

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld