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He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love…

— Simone Weil

Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he…

— Samuel Johnson

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought;…

— James Allen

He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a…

— Saint Ignatius

“A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“move from an earthly mindset that makes us bristle at the thought of submission to a joyful expectation of good, we must focus on…

— Amy Layne Litzelman

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no…

— Marcus Aurelius

The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the…

— Albert Einstein

He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He…

— Albert Einstein

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with…

— Anonymous

“The one who has become worthy of people’s reverence has no desires. The one who is unworthy of reverence has desires.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those…

— Samuel Johnson