Us Quotes
47542 Us quotes by 14169 unique authors
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Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit and truth.' It…
— Richard J. Foster
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The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and…
— Richard J. Foster
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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer…
— Li Ka-shing
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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
— Seneca the Elder
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If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us…
— Richard J. Foster
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True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
— Cyril Connolly
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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age…
— Gerald Early
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We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.
— Albert Einstein
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Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.
— David Malouf
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It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.
— Mary Webb
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Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
— John Donne
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We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
— William Hazlitt
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Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative…
— Thomas Merton
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