Happiness is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of happiness.
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.
Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.
I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.
The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.
Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological states and the symbolic knowledge encoded within the collective unconscious; things, events and conditions that are otherwise too diffuse andor complex to be completely digested or appreciated by the prevailing culture.
The action of Mind (thought) plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form.
Belief conditions experience, and experience then strengthens belief.
Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of power while simultaneously privatizing its most meaningful exercise. Democracy always seems to be at least slightly elusive under such conditions.
Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient technology for directly synchronizing the mindbody complex, creating conditions for psychological and physical healing.
Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.
Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. . . . Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.
The first of the Trainspotting crew to die. Out of the five of them like, Begbie, Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and [Margaret] Thatcher. Who'd have thunk she'd have been the first to go? She was the invisible author of the book, really. She created the conditions and the hubris whereby that whole culture flourished.
Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.
Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.
What I believe to be every Australian's right - a good, safe job with proper pay and conditions.