C. L. R. James Quotes

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

If you want a quality act as if you already had it.

The exercise of prayer in those who habitually exert it must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

We take our shape it is true within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

It is only by risking ... that we live at all.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way.

Our language one of our most precious natural resources deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands streams and whooping cranes.

Footnotes the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Truth is what works.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.]

A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.

Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there!

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded pro

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry inner-verse.

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers are so resilient and strong, it's just amazing.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince

Christian, you are the state lottery, the cure for cancer, and the three wishes from Aladdin's lamp all rolled into one

You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much.

I hug him tightly. “I can’t imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it frightens me.” “Me, too, ” he breathes. “My life would be empty without you. I love you so much.

Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I want my world to start and end with you.

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I've never wanted more, until I met you.

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for

Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade...

Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner, " Fang said, joining us.

I feel like, like pudding, " Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.

What happened to your tan?"--Fang"It was dirt." --Max

Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul, ' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?