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We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or… — Alfred Armand Montapert
Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs that… — Maximus the Confessor
Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly,… — Vaclav Havel
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. — Rollo May
All about us the sense of disenchantment with technology appears to be growing. No one ... can ignore the fall of the engineer from the… — Samuel Florman
We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are. — Nicolas Malebranche
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly
There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too… — Earl Nightingale
We cannot fail in following nature. — Michel de Montaigne
From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the stem, the branches;… — Mary Caroline Richards
I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if we enjoy it, we naturally wants to receive it. And… — Saint John Chrysostom
My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul,… — Elizabeth Prentiss
Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it. — Anna Brownell Jameson
Children, we are told to make an offering at the temple or at the feet of the guru, not because the Lord or guru is… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that… — Mata Amritanandamayi
What meaning do our lives have if we cannot set aside at least one hour a day out of 24 for thinking about God? Think… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime criteria in choosing… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the… — Michael Faraday
The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot… — Hermann von Helmholtz

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