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The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and… — Richard J. Foster
If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs… — Richard J. Foster
We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at… — Margaret J. Wheatley
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a… — Eckhart Tolle
We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community. — Ross Perot
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book. — Cyril Connolly
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age… — Gerald Early
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. — Edward Blishen
That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him… — Ramana Maharshi
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being.… — Ramana Maharshi
Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise… — Thomas Merton
It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really… — Eric Braeden
Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine. — Wayne Dyer
Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind. — Dalai Lama
.. every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this [Rumi's] poetry to… — Andrew Harvey
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from… — Denis Waitley
Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it. — William Ralph Inge

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