The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student… — Georg Buhler Copy Share Image
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The other songs [of Billie Holiday] - "Body and Soul" is like the standard - I also wanted some songs that I… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . .… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
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Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strenthen… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in… — Mary Meeker Copy Share Image
Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
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The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
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The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the… — Hans Hinrich Wendt Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being. Who knows but that which… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If God is going to use us for His honor and glory, if His power is going to rest upon us, if… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
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We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Remembrance of Jesus' passion will heal your soul of resentment, by making it ashamed of itself when it remembers the patience of… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry… — Lu Tong Copy Share Image
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Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
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Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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![“The other songs [of Billie Holiday] - "Body and Soul" is like the standard - I also wanted some songs that I knew I would sound good on, as a producer. It's been the same nine songs since I debuted it back in 2012.” quote by Jose James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/134/jose-james-22349_billie-holiday_the-other-songs-of-billie-holiday-body-a_260885.jpg)
![“The actions carried out with ignorance of the Self [agnan bhaav, ignorance intent] is all bondage. Every action done with the awareness of I am pure Soul [gnan bhaav, knowledge intent], will grant liberation.” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e9/dada-bhagwan-31_freedom_the-actions-carried-out-with-ignorance-o_674672.jpg)
