Worldly Quotes

379 quotes by 287 authors

I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and itâ€™s too dark to write or to do anything… — Katherine Mansfield
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of… — C.S. Lewis
The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the… — Nancy Pearcey
Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a… — Sue Grafton
I have found that the many imbalances within our individual lives result in an overall more worldly balance. What I mean is that no matter… — Cecelia Ahern
We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods.… — Erich Segal
No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a… — Sri Chinmoy
We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong… — Maya Angelou
Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire. — Vincent Van Gogh
Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst — John Piper
I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am not trying to… — Anais Nin
[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is… — Reza Aslan
I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more… — Henry David Thoreau
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. — George Eliot
Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very… — Desmond Tutu
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest… — Hannah Arendt
O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is… — William Wilberforce
Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions. — Unknown Author
Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. — K. Pattabhi Jois

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