Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual HealingLarry Chang Gnosophia Publishers, 2006 - 817 pages Anthology of 11,000 spiritual quotations in 220 categories |
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... never try if they were not forced to . ~ Basil W. Maturin , 1847-1915 ~ Laws of the Spiritual Life , 1916 The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows ; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts . Booker T ...
... never try if they were not forced to . ~ Basil W. Maturin , 1847-1915 ~ Laws of the Spiritual Life , 1916 The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows ; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts . Booker T ...
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... never be retrieved again . ~ - Roberta Andersen ~ You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you . ~ ~ Robert Anthony There is no such thing as can't , only ...
... never be retrieved again . ~ - Roberta Andersen ~ You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you . ~ ~ Robert Anthony There is no such thing as can't , only ...
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... never suspected before . ~ Mark Rutherford , 1831-1913 ~ The Deliverance of Mark Rutherford , 1923 That which does not kill me makes me stronger . ~ Friedrich Nietzsche , 1844-1900 ~ ~ Twilight of the Idols , 1889 Difficulties exist ...
... never suspected before . ~ Mark Rutherford , 1831-1913 ~ The Deliverance of Mark Rutherford , 1923 That which does not kill me makes me stronger . ~ Friedrich Nietzsche , 1844-1900 ~ ~ Twilight of the Idols , 1889 Difficulties exist ...
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... never bored is never old . Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age . Each day I am reborn . Each day I must begin again . Pablo Casals , 1876-1973 ~ Youth is not entirely a time of life ; it is a state of mind ...
... never bored is never old . Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age . Each day I am reborn . Each day I must begin again . Pablo Casals , 1876-1973 ~ Youth is not entirely a time of life ; it is a state of mind ...
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... never feel age ... If you have creative work , you The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been . - Madeleine L'Engle , 1918- ~ No matter how old you get , if you can keep the desire to be ...
... never feel age ... If you have creative work , you The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been . - Madeleine L'Engle , 1918- ~ No matter how old you get , if you can keep the desire to be ...
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Page 634 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Page 206 - What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun ? Or fester like a sore — And then run ? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
Page 170 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Page 144 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 152 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
Page 178 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 128 - Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
Page 678 - If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
Page 682 - To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to...
Page 55 - Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments