Ground Quotes
3275 Ground quotes by 2232 unique authors
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There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a…
— Pema Chodron
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I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.
— Homer
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Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to…
— Emily Carr
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It is only in proportion as the Christian manifests the fruit of a genuine conversion that he is entitled to regard himself and be regarded…
— Arthur W. Pink
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We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
— William Shakespeare
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Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim…
— Betty Buckley
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No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Buddha says: Remember, you have to do much, but the ultimate always happens when you are not doing anything. It happens in a let-go. PRANIHAN…
— Rajneesh
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I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was…
— Madam C. J. Walker
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The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may…
— Walter Lippmann
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And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence
— George Holyoake
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It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in…
— Aldous Huxley
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As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case…
— Confucius
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The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing…
— T. Harv Eker
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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance…
— Nikola Tesla
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Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building…
— Karl Popper
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From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways…
— Lewis Thomas
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The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron…
— Hermann Minkowski
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But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is…
— Bertrand Russell
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