Why do some people, when they want to practice, keep coming against problems and difficulties, and obstacles - inner obstacles and outer… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
It can be argued that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Justice Clarence Thomas are Ivy League graduates because of affirmative action admittance… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Friends in high places definitely helped- especially if you had enemies in even higher spots.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate… — John Milton Copy Share Image
You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
