Condition Quotes
1998 quotes by 1390 authors
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Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges…
— Henri Nouwen
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You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess,…
— Anne Lamott
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Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.
— Henri Bergson
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Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.
— Eoin Colfer
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So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.
— Theodore Roethke
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To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational…
— Peter Straub
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But if you ever bring her back damaged again--and I don't care whose fault it is; I don't care if she merely trips, or if…
— Stephenie Meyer
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We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand…
— Wendell Berry
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This new condition, this unwilled silence, had fallen over him ten days ago. The day Cass had gone into the hospital. The day she had…
— Pseudonymous Bosch
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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being…
— Saint Augustine
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If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish…
— Stephen Colbert
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When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.
— Frank Miller
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...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition…
— George Orwell
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there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it
— Christopher Reeve
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Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in…
— Dan Simmons
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Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to…
— Gilles Deleuze
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You've got to keep yourself in prime physical condition, because fatigue makes cowards of us all.
— Vince Lombardi
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