I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The best leaders are those their people hardly know exist. The next best is a leader who is loved and praised. Next… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Now, there was an anchorite called Timothy in a coenobium. The abbot, having heard of a brother who was being tempted, asked… — Poemen Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on… — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised.” — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“Oppression doesn’t make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we’ll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some. — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. I was despised… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
Nepotism is despised in England, which is a very good thing. I think something to do with the class system. People really… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
My father cared very much about courage, physical courage as well. He despised those who didn't have it. But he never said… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Sofi had no idea how long she sat like that. Tucked up beside this boy she despised more than anyone other than… — Mary Weber Copy Share Image
There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I… — John Brown Copy Share Image
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
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