Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
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when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking… — Helen Eustis Copy Share Image
We each cope differently with the specter of our deaths. Some people deny it. Some pray. Some numb themselves with tequila. I… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues,… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense.… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
Probably my eating disorder [is the hardest obstacle]. It ruled my life for years, and I didn't know how I could live… — Ashley Rickards Copy Share Image
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and… — Twiggy Copy Share Image
A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We should forgive and forget the faults of others. Anger is the enemy of every spiritual aspirant. Anger causes loss of power… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
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…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
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Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and… — Patriarch Philaret of Moscow Copy Share Image
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All those formal systems, in mathematics and physics and the philosophy of science, which claim to give foundations for certain truth are… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Yes, the sky was now a devastating, home-cooked red. The small German town had been flung apart one more time. Snowflakes of… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Nothing that comes from God will minister to my pride of self-congratulation. If I am tempted to be complacent and to feel… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to… — Charles le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin -… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
Little white lies are part of everyday life. If youre in court being charged with a felony, youre probably going to be… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
The separation of church and state can sometimes be frustrating for women and men of deep religious faith. They may be tempted… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for,… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk,' Jacob said. 'Henry Miller wrote… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass,… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
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![“Probably my eating disorder [is the hardest obstacle]. It ruled my life for years, and I didn't know how I could live with it forever, but I didn't know how I could live without it. It was a struggle to recover from, and it's only a daily reprieve, but as long as I stay spiritually centered, I…” quote by Ashley Rickards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d4e/ashley-rickards-25480_disorder_probably-my-eating-disorder-is-the-harde_947658.jpg)
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