Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
Our nation, which possesses greater resources than any other, is rent, from center to circumference, with party strife, political intrigues, and sectional… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
God hates it when we stir up strife, disloyalty, or contention among His people. It may happen in the church, but don’t… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain…Peace and harmony may reign in one… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of… — Honorius Augustodunensis Copy Share Image
I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple? Why can’t it… — Bella Andre Copy Share Image
“For Ares, lord of strife, Who doth the swaying scales of battle hold, War’s money-changer, giving dust for gold, Sends back, to… — aeschylus Copy Share Image
Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise -… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His… — Joel Beeke Copy Share Image
When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Maybe you could call me a little controlling or I like things to be my way, but since I was a little… — Ashton Shepherd Copy Share Image
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction,… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal… — Dan J. Stein Copy Share Image
There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath; Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife;… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill, Fair is Thy pavilion,… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more;… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Whereas banking education anesthetizes and inhibits creative power, problem-posing education involves a constant unveiling of reality. The former attempts to maintain the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Your soul is that part of you that always strives for harmony, toward cooperation, toward sharing, toward reverence for life and as… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image