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- People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their…
- Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
- He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.
- Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not…
- This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what…
- One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get…
- Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
- Only those to whom God is present in everything and who employ their reason in the highest degree and have true enjoyment in it know…
- If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
- There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only…
- Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
- If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
- If I had a friend and loved him because of the benefits which this brought me and because of getting my own way, then it…
- If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live…
- [...] Cause in eternity there's no yesterday or tomorrow, but only Now.
- If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice
- The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle