Center Of The Universe Quotes by Aldous Huxley, Richard Smoley, Robert Englund, David Eagleman, John Shelby Spong, George Saunders and many others.
One thinks one’s something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one’s just a slight interruption in the ongoing march of entropy.
By penetrating to the core of our own being, we can make contact with the consciousness at the center of the universe.
I have friends in New York that won’t leave New York, and they’re really talented people, but they’d rather take an acting class in New York than do a play in Florida or Boston. That’s just weird to me, but they get into that I’ve-got-to-be-in-the-center-of-the-universe mentality. I’m not that way.
A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.
It’s the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world… The Earth is not the center of the universe, therefore, God is not a being who lives above the sky, who splits the Red Sea from time to time, or creates a miracle, or whatever.
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them.
Oklahoma is the cultural center of the universe.
Your lower self sees you as the center of the universe- your higher self sees you as a cell in the body of humanity.
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.
I lived in New York for 10 years, I loved it, I never second-guessed it. There were definitely times when I thought, “I will never leave this place.” And I kind of got into that center-of-the-universe mindset.
The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you’re at the center of the universe – if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.
People want to be at the center of the Universe…and they’re going to flock to anybody who tells them that.
Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.
You’re not the center of the universe, you know.
Gregory Hines was the most talented man I’ve ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.
Every time we start thinking we’re the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, “I’m sorry. What’d you say your name was again?”
Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.
