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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to…
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,…
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future,…
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much…
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,…
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There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point…
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness…
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are,…
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Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine…
— John Owen
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There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry,…
— Margaret Thatcher
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The Savior’s gift of grace to us is not necessarily limited in time to ‘after’ all we can do. We may receive…
— Bruce C. Hafen
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The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable…
— Marion G. Romney
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To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are…
— John Owen
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On what basis should our policy rest? It should rest on our own strength, and that means regeneration through one's own efforts.…
— Mao Zedong
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We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on…
— Mao Zedong
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Blessings don’t come from outside, but from within. Whatever blessings we receive are the result of our own efforts and positive actions.
— Dalai Lama
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...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even…
— John Cassian
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Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid…
— Vincent de Paul
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Churches we build only by our own efforts and not in the strength of the Spirit will quickly collapse when we don't…
— Francis Chan
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Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the…
— C.S. Lewis
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