Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Life sort of shrinks and you get older, I don't know if I'm going to have time to do all the things… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Make sure your family and loved ones don’t interrupt you during your writing time. If you’re a lawyer or doctor, friends don’t… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack… — Gerald Nicosia Copy Share Image
The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings,… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Youth who have been exposed to immoral images at a very early age are terrified that they may have already disqualified themselves… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
'Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights' (Jms. 1:17). But there is… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary… — C. P. Scott Copy Share Image
“To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The Constitution of our country [was] formed by the Fathers of liberty... Exalt the standard of Democracy! Down with that of priestcraft,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted, those high contracting parties did positively agree that they would not… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy.… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any… — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hmph," said Sharon . "Did you know that the numbers three and seven are sacred to vampires? There are seven vampire sects."… — Michele Bardsley Copy Share Image
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The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Materialism is not fundamentally an economic problem, but a cultural one... a spiritual issue. It runs to the depths of our souls,… — Robert Wuthnow Copy Share Image
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death,… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
Most of my folks back home think Social Security and Medicare are sacred commitments stronger than the strongest contract. And yet if… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
“I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Americans, too many of them, take themselves too seriously. You're going to get rapped - by the viewers, by the sponsors and… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
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