To comprehend and to understand God above all similitudes, as He is in Himself, is to be God with God, without intermediary, and without any otherness that can become a hindrance or an intermediary. Whosoever wishes to understand this must … Read the rest
Raul Seixas Quotations
-A dream that we dream alone is just but a dream, but a dream that we dream together becomes reality.
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John Grogan Quotations
-A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.
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Music by Mitch Leigh, Lyrics by Joe Darion
To dream … the impossible dream …
To fight … the unbeatable foe …
To bear … with unbearable sorrow …
To run … where the brave dare not go …
To right … the unrightable wrong …
To love … Read the rest
Ernest Benn Quotations
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
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Mary Oliver Quotations
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my … Read the rest
Anonymous
-Profound joy of heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life. One has to follow it even though one enters into a way full of difficulties.
-Death is not a problem if you have lived first.
-The … Read the rest
Oscar Wilde Quotations
-Education is an admirable thing, but it’s well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
-Every saint has a past and … Read the rest
Jim Horning
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotations
-God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.
-An ignorance of means may minister
To greatness,
but an ignorance of aims
Make it impossible to be great at all.
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U.G. Krishnamurti Quotations
-Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is ‘you’. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
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Tom Wolfe Quotations
-A cult is a religion with no political power.
-The question that intrigues me: After you’ve met all the great threats and found that the great catastrophes of world history are not bearing down on you, what do you do … Read the rest
John le Carre Quotations
-Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
-A desk is … Read the rest
Thomas Homer-Dixon Quotations
-Three large spoonfuls of crude oil contain about the same amount of energy as eight hours of human manual labour. When we fill our car with gas, we’re pouring into the tank the energy equivalent of about two years of … Read the rest
Brian Perkins
This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary. It is peoples’ fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death … Read the rest
Heart Sutra
Beyond, beyond, totally beyond, perfectly beyond: Awakening ..Yes!
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John Herschel Quotations
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
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Dennis Potter Quotations
-We should always look back on our own past with a sort of tender contempt.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotations
-Telling the truth … is not solely a matter of moral character; it is also a matter of correct appreciation of real situations and of serious reflection upon them.
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Salma Hayek Quotations
-The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it’s not needy. It’s a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and … Read the rest
Queen Victoria Quotations
-I would earnestly warn you against trying to find out the reason for and explanation of everything. … To try and find out the reason for everything is very dangerous and leads to nothing but disappointment and dissatisfaction, unsettling your … Read the rest
John Lyly
After three days, fish and guests stink.
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Eric Gibson Quotations
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
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Sholem Asch Quotations
-Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
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Theodore Roethke Quotations
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
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Arnold Glasgow Quotations
Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition
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Mark
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
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John R. Miller Quotations
-If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
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Felix E. Schelling
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
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Amber Deckers Quotations
Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn’t. Failure is part of what makes us human.
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Salvador Dali Quotations
-I am not strange, I am just not normal.
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Walter Pater Quotations
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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Wernher von Braun Quotations
-Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
-I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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Randy Goodrum Quotations
i cried a tear
you wiped it dry
i was confused
you cleared my mind
i sold my soul
you bought it back for me
and held the earth
you gave me dignity
somehow you needed me
you gave me … Read the rest
Harry Stack Sullivan
Throughout our lives opportunities for new integrations and adaptations present themselves.
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Real Live Preacher Quotations
-Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. ‘This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. … Read the rest
Gary Hamel
Whatever I can imagine, I can accomplish. I am no longer a vassal in a faceless bureaucracy. I am an activist, not a drone … I am a revolutionary.
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Edward Young Quotations
-How comes it to pass that we die Copies?
-Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Ovid Quotations
-Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
-I can’t live either without you or with you.
-We two form a multitude.
-The silent countenance … Read the rest
H. Norman Schwarzkopf Quotations
-You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Marcel Archard
Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.
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Charles F. Kettering Quotations
-Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
-Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of … Read the rest
Robert Bly
-The most powerful enemies of men’s openness are the corporate men. Three or four years ago there were hundreds of posters in New York one spring saying, “You don’t need to beat a drum or hug a tree to be … Read the rest
Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco Quotations
-Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
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Marshall McLuhan Quotations
-There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
-Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the … Read the rest
Mary Worley Montagu
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
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Bertrand Russell Quotations
-Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
-Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
-Most men would rather die, than think. Many do.
-Our great democracies still … Read the rest
Chuang Tse
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Lin Yutang Quotations
-Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
-Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the … Read the rest
Kurt Herbert Alder Quotations
-Tradition is what you resort to when you don’t have the time or the money to do it right.
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Gordon Jenkins Quotations
As I approach the prime of my life
I find I have the time of my life
Learning to enjoy at my leisure
All the simple pleasures
And so I happily concede
That this is all I ask
This is … Read the rest
George McDonald Quotations
-Work is not always required… there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
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Seneca the Younger Quotations
-No man is crushed by hostile Fortune who is not first deceived by her smiles.
-Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Francis Ford Coppola Quotations
You don’t have to specialize – do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
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Charles (Chic) Thompson Quotations
-Be an explorer…read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play…do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world.
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John Quincy Adams Quotations
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
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Joseph M. Juran (Dr.) Quotations
Commitment is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.
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Francis Chichester
Most of us are content to pass over the surface of life. It is only by submitting to trial than an individual can learn to know what is in him.
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Demosthenes Quotations
-Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
-Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
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Dave Barry Quotations
-You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, “My God, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!”
-You can only be young once. But you can always be … Read the rest
David Hume Quotations
-I believe that no man ever threw away life, while it was worth keeping.
-A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual … Read the rest
Margaret Thatcher Quotations
-A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
-Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
-Being powerful is … Read the rest
Simone Weil Quotations
-Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
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Mitch Albom Quotations
-The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
-You’re not a wave, you’re a … Read the rest
Homer Simpson
Kids, just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I’m not listening.
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Freeman Dyson
Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
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Isaac Newton Quotations
-I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a … Read the rest
Sun Tzu Quotations
-Therefore the considerations of the intelligent always include both benefit and harm. As they consider benefit, their work can expand; as they consider harm, their troubles can be resolved.
-All warfare is based on deception.
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Robert Pante Quotations
-If you look good and dress well, you don’t need a purpose in life.
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Shania Twain Quotations
Let’s go.
Mmm.
Don’t want you for the weekend.
Don’t want you for a night.
I’m only interested if I can have you for life.
Yeah.
I know I sound serious.
Baby, I am.
You’re a fine piece of real … Read the rest
Josh Billings
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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J. Bartlett Brebner Quotations
-Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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Robert J. Sawyer Quotations
-Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
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Spike Milligan Quotations
-The cliché is the handrail of the crippled mind.
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Bob Moawad Quotations
-Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.
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Howard W. Newton Quotations
People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it.
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Eric Hoffer Quotations
-The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
-Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one’s balance … Read the rest
Elie Wiesel Quotations
-Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Upton Sinclair Quotations
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
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Nadine Stair Quotations
-If I had my life to live over… I’d dare to make more mistakes next time.
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Ezra Pound Quotations
Literature is news that stays news.
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Robert A. Ward Quotations
I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live… More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.
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M. C. Escher Quotations
Only those who attempt the absurd…will achieve the impossible. I think …I think it’s in my basement…Let me go upstairs and check.
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Paul McCartney
I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn’t weird at all and that it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.
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Maya Angelou Quotations
-If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can transform a million realities.
-The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
-I know why the caged bird sings.
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Anne Wilson Schaef Quotations
-Self-confidence is so relaxing. There is no strain or stress when one is self-confident. Our lack of self-confidence comes from trying to be someone we aren’t.
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George Burns Quotations
-Fall in love with what you do for a living. I don’t care what it is. It works.
-I’d rather fail at doing something I love than succeed at doing something I hate.
-Age to me means nothing. I can’t … Read the rest
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
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Indira Gandhi Quotations
-The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
-We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Marcus Brigstocke Quotations
-Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
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Neil Armstrong Quotations
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, … Read the rest
Okakura Kakuzo
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
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Louise Nevelson Quotations
-I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotations
-There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.
-He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of … Read the rest
Ann Landers Quotations
-The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
-Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye … Read the rest
W. Edwards Deming
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
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Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotations
-The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
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Arab Proverbs
-Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
-Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
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William Morris Quotations
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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