Sacred Quotes
1621 Sacred quotes by 1045 unique authors
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We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on…
— Malala Yousafzai
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Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
— Heraclitus
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Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so…
— Jefferson Davis
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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
— Black Elk
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There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and…
— Catherine Ponder
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...Each of you, Jew and gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in the sacred war should do so now...
— Samuel Untermyer
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Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an…
— Michael Jackson
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Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...
— James Joyce
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Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a…
— Paul Hawken
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Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks.…
— Khalil Gibran
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our…
— Walter Savage Landor
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type…
— David Foster Wallace
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The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
— Thomas Jefferson
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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells…
— Khalil Gibran
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Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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All patriarchists exalt the home and family as sacred, demanding it remain inviolate from prying eyes. Men want privacy for their violations of women... All…
— Marilyn French
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It´s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance with the force…
— Marcus Allen
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There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and naturally and you will open…
— Unknown Author
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Unless your sexuality rises and reaches to love it is mundane, it has nothing sacred about it. When your sex becomes love, then it is…
— Rajneesh
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Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.
— Saraha
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