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- Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not…
- Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my…
- As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this…
- Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and…
- To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness…
- The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For…
- In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility,…
- Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home…
- When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is…
- If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in…
- What I do is live, how I pray is breathe, what I wear is pants.
- All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and…
- Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be…
- What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a…
- To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law…
- The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.
- It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as "new men" regenerated by the Holy Spirit in Christ.…
- I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet…
- Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.
- A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you…
- To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
- If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but…
- If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
- A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
- We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of…
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- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. — Fred Armisen
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong