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Joan D. Chittister has 93 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out…
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The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in…
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We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one…
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Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
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Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is…
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A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation…
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Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious…
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To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away…
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Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about…
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It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we…
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Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step…
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In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might…
— Theodore Bikel
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The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
— Pierre Bonnard
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Pardon me," I answered, as I placed a bundle of straw upon the fire and slightly stirred it. Then I turned quickly…
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When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering,…
— Jack Kornfield
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The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our…
— Julia Cameron
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People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this…
— Paul Hawken
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Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of…
— Camille Paglia
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not…
— Martial
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The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.
— Carl Van Vechten
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I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony -…
— Noah Wyle
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Human existence cannot be silent, nor can it be nourished by false words, but only by true words, with which people transform…
— Paulo Freire
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