J. Robbins Quotes

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

The full moon - the mandala of the sky.

Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.

Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy.

Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.

Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

I think spirituality is a part of everything. It doesn't need to be separated out from everything else.

What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.

If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does

The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.

If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.

I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line.

When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself.

The way to expand our lives is to model the lives of those people who are already succeeding.

God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!

New Year = A New Life! Decide today who you will become, what you will give how you will live.

The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.

Billionaire investors know they're going to be wrong, so they have a plan to protect against wrong.

What's talked about is a dream, What's envisioned is exciting, What's planned become possible, What's scheduled is real.

You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.

If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.

You become what you do most of the time.

Why wait to be memorable?

Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.

Success leaves clues. Go figure out what someone who was successful did, and model it. Improve it, but learn their steps. They have knowledge.

Negative things you tell yourself are inCANTations, turn them into inCANtations.

Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us

Problems are God's resistance to create spiritual muscles.

Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example.

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.