Excerpts of Citations
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There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itsel...
~Soren Kierkegaard
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To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erot...
~Soren Kierkegaard
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One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows th...
~Soren Kierkegaard
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It is always your next move.
~Napolean Hill
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
~Anais Nin
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
~Mark Twain
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In life, all must choose at times. Sometimes, two possibilities are good; neither is evil. Usually, however, one is of greater import than the other. When in doubt, each must choose that which conc...
~John A. Widtsoe
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Christ withdrew alone to the desert to fast and pray in preparation for a dialogue with the Devil. Such a dialogue was inescapable; every virtue has to be cleared with the Devil, as every vice is t...
~Malcolm Muggeridge
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The temptation...is to do it this way, to get his bread...the easy way, by abuse of power and without a willingness to wait for the right time and the the right way. It is the temptation to...
~Jeffrey R. Holland
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Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important nonevil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
~Abraham Maslow
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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
~Gandhi
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seed...
~James Allen
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
~George Eliot
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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task a...
~Saint Francis de Sales
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
~Thomas A. Edison
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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
~Shakti Gawain