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Life passes by now like the scenery outside a car window. I breathe and eat and sleep as I always did, but there seems to… — Nicholas Sparks
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do… — Theodore Roosevelt
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Jesus Christ lives. He is our Savior, our Redeemer. He is a glorious, resurrected being. He has the capacity to communicate love that is so… — Richard G. Scott
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are… — Sue Monk Kidd
How do we beat her? I asked. You pretty much donâ€™t, Horus said. She is the incarnation of the sunâ€™s wrath. Back in the day… — Rick Riordan
Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it… — Gilles Deleuze
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself. — Stanislav Grof
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to… — Joyce Carol Oates
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay. — Aesop
The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active,… — Martin Luther
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind… — Thomas A. Edison
I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud… — Zadie Smith
An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body. — George S. Patton
Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around… — Charles Dickens
Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The paranoid one's wards are still active. They keep me several feet from the building." "But not his car," I said, a smile tugging at… — Karen Marie Moning
Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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