Causes Us Quotes
74 quotes by 64 authors
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It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn't about money or possessions or even our hopes. It's about…
— Bob Goff
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Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us…
— John Welwood
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative…
— Oliver Burkeman
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A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots,…
— John Welwood
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There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What…
— Yasmin Mogahed
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It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
— Pema Chodron
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God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real…
— Erwin McManus
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Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
— Meir Kahane
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When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong rush…
— Nancy Pearl
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To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice compassion…
— Dalai Lama
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There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And maybe…
— Harold S. Kushner
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The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the distress and the…
— Chris Prentiss
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Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.
— Alexandre Vinet
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Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we…
— Gerry Spence
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Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear.…
— Vincent de Paul
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And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire…
— Don Altman
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That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself…
— Robert Kegan
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A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Causes Us Quotes
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