Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.
How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?
Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.
Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money. . . they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.
Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.
Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.
I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact. . . but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience
We become happier not by accumulating more things but by creating richer experiences
I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.