Temples Quotes
718 Temples quotes by 488 unique authors
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Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for…
— Jasper Fforde
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I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek,…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion…
— Dalai Lama
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When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by…
— Stephen Crane
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Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in…
— Khalil Gibran
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Just as a flood-lighted temple is more beautiful in a severe storm or in a heavy fog, so the gospel of Jesus Christ is more…
— Harold B. Lee
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The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear.…
— Joe Hill
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Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the…
— William Wordsworth
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And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own…
— Anne Rice
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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of…
— George Eliot
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My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last,…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and…
— Anne Lamott
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