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Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up… — Robert Frost
Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us...… — Joss Whedon
If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and â€“ pity me. Even the… — Hans Christian Andersen
Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreamsâ€“ but marry her, can… — Philip Roth
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natureâ€™s inexhaustible sources of energy--sun, wind… — Thomas A. Edison
Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source. — Wayne Dyer
For paradise we long. For perfection we were made...This longing is the source of the hunger and dissatisfaction that mark our lives...This longing makes our… — Richard John Neuhaus
Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all… — Jean Vanier
Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the… — Harper Lee
This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source… — Sholom Aleichem
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a… — Barack Obama
It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to… — John Stuart Mill
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with… — W. Somerset Maugham
As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that… — Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer
the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power… — John Burroughs
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and… — William Faulkner
But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the… — Rohinton Mistry
And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of… — Aristotle
The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will… — Scott Adams

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