"We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as "Do not lie." Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, "How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?" Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie ? but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn't.

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men.

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example now, I hate the bank and everything connected with it. I also hate Dutch paintings, penis-sucking, parties, and cold rainy weather. But I am much more preoccupied with loving.

There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations of creation and behavior and religion.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

God willing we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance to be over much occupied about exercise about eating and drinking about easing oneself about sexual intercourse.

Hunting fishing drawing and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not and cared naught about them.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

Exercise keeps me occupied which is good for my mental health.

If we examine our thoughts we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

There would seem to be a limit even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure a mere experimentation.

When the students are occupied they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.