Us Quotes
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to…
— Jane Austen
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has…
— Jane Austen
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father…
— Paul Auster
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories,…
— Diane Ackerman
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
— Teresa of Avila
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to…
— Teresa of Avila
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
— Teresa of Avila
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this…
— Teresa of Avila
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear…
— Teresa of Avila
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us…
— Teresa of Avila
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in…
— Teresa of Avila
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of…
— Teresa of Avila
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who…
— Teresa of Avila
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend…
— Teresa of Avila
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the…
— Teresa of Avila
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A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid…
— John Avlon
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Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to…
— Dan Aykroyd
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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