Quotes about Stagnation

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Take one sexually inept wage-slave,'" she went on, "'one dissatisfied female, two or (if preferred) three small television-addicts; marinate in a mixture of Freudism and dilute Christianity; then bottle up tightly in a four-room flat and stew for fifteen years in their own juice.

Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.

For too long I had existed, not really going anywhere and not standing still. I just lived, always in search of something that seemed just out of my range of vision.

He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the place where love had left them, while the whole world spun around.

Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.

Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.

Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world.

Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.