Source Quotes
2896 quotes by 1993 authors
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Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Since the beginning of time, love has been the source of both the highest bliss and the heaviest burdens. At the heart of misery from…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our…
— Joseph Campbell
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My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in…
— Michael Shermer
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The source of wisdom and power, of love and beauty, is within ourselves, but not within our egos. It is within our consciousness. Indeed, its…
— Paul Brunton
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[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link…
— Charles Stanley
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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
— Mark Twain
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...because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source. There is no you,…
— Octavio Paz
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When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
— Rumi
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Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source…
— R. D. Laing
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There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why…
— Samuel R. Delany
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It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of…
— Rollo May
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find…
— Tacitus
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I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind,…
— Eric Weiner
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Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
— Benjamin Franklin
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We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand…
— Wendell Berry
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It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It…
— Marilynne Robinson
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It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society
— R.J. Rushdoony
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Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right…
— Philip Pullman
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