When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter, Writer
When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It’s simple: if you aren’t willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
—Deepak Chopra (b.1946) Indian-born American Physician, Public Speaker, Writer
The universe is wider than our views of it.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
—Carl Sagan (1934–96) American Astronomer
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it
—Barry Lopez (1945–2020) American Essayist, Fiction Writer
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) English Occultist, Mystic, Magician
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–80) American Poet, Writer
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
—Louis Pasteur (1822–95) French Biologist
The number one reason most people don’t get what they want is that they don’t know what they want. Rich people are totally clear that they want wealth. They are unwavering in their desire. They are fully committed to creating wealth. As long as it’s legal, moral, and ethical, they will do whatever it takes to have wealth. Rich people do not send mixed messages to the universe. Poor people do.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
—Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American Novelist, Essayist
I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours and God’s. Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our business. When I think, “You need to get a job, I want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself,” I am in your business. When I’m worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God’s business. If I am mentally in your business or in God’s business, the effect is separation.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what’s going to happen? You will lose it. Your container will overflow and the excess money will spill out all over the place. You simply cannot have more money than the container. Therefore you must grow to be a big container so you cannot only hold more wealth but also attract more wealth. The universe abhors a vacuum and if you have a very large money container, it will rush in to fill the space.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Everything is perfect in the universe—even your desire to improve it.
—Wayne Dyer (b.1940) American Motivational Writer, Author, Motivational Speaker
In an orderly universe, there is simply no way in which one can get something for nothing.
—Eric Butterworth (1916–2003) American Spirituality Writer
I have come to believe that there are only two kinds of experiences in life: those that stem from our Higher Self and those that have something to teach us. We recognize the first as pure joy and the latter as struggle. But they are both perfect. Each time we confront some intense difficulty, we know there is something we haven’t learned yet, and the universe is now giving us the opportunity to learn.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamans call intent, and absolutely everything hat exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.
—Carlos Castaneda (1925–98) Peruvian-born American Anthropologist, Author
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
One of the most valuable lessons in learning to diminish fear is embodied in the phrase SAY YES TO YOUR UNIVERSE.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float on the collective level of consciousness of mankind, so that any increment we add comes back to us. We all add to our common buoyancy by our efforts to benefit life. It is a scientific fact that what is good for you is good for me.
—David R. Hawkins (1913–2002) American Philosopher, Academic
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
—Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960) English Author, Poet, Dramatist
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
—Claude Levi-Strauss (1908–2009) French Social Anthropologist, Philosopher
The universe is one of God’s thoughts.
—Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, Dramatist
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
—William S. Burroughs (1914–97) American Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer, Painter
Minds are like parachutes—they only function when open.
—Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar (1864–1930) Scottish Businessperson
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
—Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American Inventor, Philosopher
Did you know that there are no straight lines in the universe? Life doesn’t travel in perfectly straight lines. It moves more like a winding river. More often than not, you can only see to the next bend, and only when you reach that next turn can you see more.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
—Robert A. Heinlein (1907–88) American Science Fiction Writer
I don’t pretend to understand the Universe—it’s a great deal bigger than I am.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened.
—Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English Novelist, Scriptwriter
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
—Carl Sagan (1934–96) American Astronomer
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes—but is that all?
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy.
—J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964) British Biologist, Geneticist
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
The field of intent grows my fingernails, it beats my heart, it digest my food, it writes my books, and it does this for everyone and everything in the universe.
—Wayne Dyer (b.1940) American Motivational Writer, Author, Motivational Speaker
Nothing is accidental in the universe—this is one of my Laws of Physics—except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
—Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Playwright, Poet, Literary Critic
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe – for though the world is so old – and so many books have been written – each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience – each field of thought wholly unexplored – the whole world is an America – a New World.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself. In every act, word or gesture he stands revealed as he is, and not as he would have himself appear to be. From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
—Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) American New Thought Writer, Teacher
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
—Steven Weinberg (1933–2021) American Physicist
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms
—Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.
—Eugene Ionesco (1909–94) Romanian-born French Dramatist
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
—Scott Adams (b.1957) American Cartoonist
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
—Robert A. Heinlein (1907–88) American Science Fiction Writer
Say to yourself, ‘I’m here on purpose, I can accomplish anything I desire, and I do it by being in harmony with the all-pervading creative force in the universe.
—Wayne Dyer (b.1940) American Motivational Writer, Author, Motivational Speaker
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
—David Bohm (1917–92) American Theoretical Physicist
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