C. N. Lester Quotes

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

Sorrow does not take away, but adds to the Christian's joy.

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

Advertising becomes a dialogue that becomes an invitation to a relationship.

The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

Human love is needing the other one. Divine love is giving to the other one.

Feeling sad about anything is holding onto it. Say, 'This is something I have to let go of,' and immediately you will feel better.

Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

Love is a feeling of givingness with no thought of receiving any return for it.

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.

This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite.

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

There's no such thing as a mistake--we do it! There's no such thing as an accident--we do it!.

People need each other and think it is love. There's no hanging on to, or fencing in, of the other one when one loves.

Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward.

Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.

Everyone keeps asking me: 'Are you going to win?' How on earth do you know if you're going to win or not?

You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done it will disappear.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

It might be hard to believe, but as difficult as cancer was, in some ways it was good for me.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.