Quotes of Benjamin Lee Whorf

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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

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“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

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

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions. ”

- Woody Allen

“ If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ We accept some black people, receive some white people, embrace some Asian people, and welcome some mixed people, but God commands us to love all people. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

“ Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”

- Markus Zusak

“ It is easier to believe a lie than to claim parts of you that have been scattered and buried. Your willingness to search for what's been lost merely points to how immensely powerful you are. ”

- Kirstyn Lazur

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ Love overcomes bitterness, overpowers sorrow, overwhelms anger, and overthrows hatred. Medicine heals the body, faith heals the heart, wisdom heals the mind, and love heals the soul. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Legacy is greater than currency ”

- Gary Vaynerchuk

“ Every risk bears with it the seeds of an opportunity: failure success, fall rise, and setback comeback. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ Some symbols reach to your primordial archives. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ I want to stand in front Allah proud of how well I treated back in dunya. ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ Never worry a bit in Life. Always be full of merriment. ”

- sharda sriram

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett