Cannot Quotes
17188 quotes by 7115 authors
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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first…
— William Carey
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I cannot think of a better definition of Christianity than that: give, give, give.
— James I. McCord
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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to…
— Nhat Hanh
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Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you…
— Janet Morris
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I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.
— Kenneth Lay
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There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this…
— Wendell Berry
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We are forced to choose, for the processes we have initiated in our lifetime cannot continue in the lifetime of our children. Whatever we do…
— Ervin Laszlo
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These are only outer symptoms. Death is the transfer of the soul from one body to another body, or in cases when a man is…
— Rajneesh
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If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse has no mystery…
— Rajneesh
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So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not escape the fact.…
— Rajneesh
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Change the emphasis, turn your attention around. If you become concerned with death, your life comes to be revealed to you for the first time,…
— Rajneesh
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But how to know the falsity of death? How can we know there is no death? Until we know that, our fear of death will…
— Rajneesh
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Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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You may be whatever you resolve to be - determine to be something in the world and you will be something. " I cannot," never…
— Josiah Johnson Hawes
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We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.
— Donald M. Nelson
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of…
— Aristotle
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