Quotes 521 till 540 of 689.
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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
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The only true criticism of high art is silence, silence as grand as heaven itself.
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The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
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The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doch glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
Source: A midsummer night's dream (1595) -
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
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The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...
Source: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (1960) -
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
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The subject permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation - both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents - and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.
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The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beingsÂ… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.
Source: Dhammapada -
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!
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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
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