Function Quotes

Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Related topics: Affirmations Values Live-By Self-Esteem

To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs
is the whole function of a master.
- Osho

The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Choose the whole of your environment, things and events,
based upon the value, meaning and function they hold.
Do not allow obligation or immediacy
to bind you to physical things or specific actions.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

AN INSPIRED LIFE: I HAVE A CHOICE
My key to living an inspired life involves
Embracing my history,
Understanding the function of expectations
and gently learning to have none;
Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices.
In all circumstances I acknowledge this,
IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE.
My choice resides in my perspective.
While I certainly do not control climate
and markets and roadways and others,
I do control myself and my response
to all those circumstances. I do indeed.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dry rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
- Jack London

It is the function of art to renew our perception.
What we are familiar with we cease to see.
The writer shakes up the familiar scene,
and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
- Anais Nin

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push,
except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
- Paulo Coelho

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You change your life by changing your heart.
- Max Lucado

The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein

Do what you feel in your heart to be right.
You'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb

Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day in the year.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All paths are the same, leading nowhere.
Therefore, pick a path with heart!
- Carlos Castaneda

The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Keywood

Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us.
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
- Arthur Erickson

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill

The heart is forever inexperienced.
- Henry David Thoreau

The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu

The regrets and resentments etched in a heart
remain until they are cleansed away with love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart,
cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho

You can choose to follow your heart always.
- don Miguel Ruiz

We attract abundance when we ask from a compassionate heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The greatest test of courage on earth
is to bear defeat without losing heart.
- Robert Ingersoll

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie