„There is nothing to prove and nothing to protect. I am who I am and it's enough.“
Richard Rohr
US-amerikanischer Franziskanerpater, Prediger und Autor spi… 1943Ähnliche Zitate
„I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.“
— Terence Roman comic playwright -185 - -159 v.Chr
Act II, scene 2, 12, line 243.
„I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.“
— Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
„I am nothing, truth is everything.“
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
„(…) I am all and all is me. Being the world I am not afraid of the world. Being all, what am I to be afraid of? Water is not afraid of water, nor fire of fire. (…) It is attachment to a name and shape that breeds fear. I am not attached. I am nothing, and nothing is not afraid of no thing. On the contrary, everything is afraid of the Nothing, for when a thing touches Nothing, it becomes nothing. (…)“
— Nisargadatta Maharaj Indian guru 1897 - 1981
Source: "I am That." P.88.
„I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.“
— Sitting Bull Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man 1831 - 1890
Recorded by a reporter after Sitting Bull's retreat to Canada after being defeated in the Black Hills War, originally published in the New York Herald on November 16, 1877. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 190.
„Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.“
— Aubrey Beardsley English illustrator and author 1872 - 1898
In an interview with <i>The Idler</i> (1896), as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 309
„I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing.“
— Jack Vance American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916 - 2013
Chapter 3, "The Mountains of Magnatz"
