Makes Us Quotes

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Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer… — Li Ka-shing
Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative… — Thomas Merton
Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. — Eric Berne
When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step. — Paulo Coelho
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and… — Richard Dawkins
Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be… — Christopher Hitchens
What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a… — Agnes Martin
The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that… — Thomas Berry
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious… — Gerhard Richter
Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us… — Alister MacKenzie
A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. — Orison S. Marden
Hatred makes us all ugly. — Laurell K. Hamilton
If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. — Kit Williams
Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to work this out… — David Wilcock
We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our… — Robert Strausz-Hupe
Any picture firmly held in any mind, in any form, is bound to come forth. That is the great, unchanging universal law that, when we… — Roger McDonald

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