"It costs so much to be a full……" — Morris West
"It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risks of living with both arms. One has to embrace life."
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19 Quotes by Morris West
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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must…
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In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables…
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The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the…
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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the…
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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in…
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I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small…
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There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to…
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Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him -…
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He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good…
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Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the…
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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
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One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
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