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wisdom true-life life-is
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full. Thomas Merton
wisdom prayer inspired
The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him. Thomas Merton
wisdom perfect matter
Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever. Thomas Hobbes
wisdom people dignity
Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger. Thomas Friedman
wisdom time power
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. Thomas J. Watson
wisdom
I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did. Thomas Keneally
wisdom children memories
I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers. Thomas Keneally
wisdom culture study
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. Raymond Queneau
wisdom men effort
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius... Victor Hugo
wish died
I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her. Ernest Hemingway
wish may constitution
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures. George Washington
wish paradise life-is
We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty. Fyodor Dostoevsky
wish annoying fallen-angels
Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really. Cassandra Clare
wish answers rich
I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything. Jim Carrey
wish action remember
Pause and remember - Stop procrastinating! Wishing is wonderful but action is what it takes to make it happen. Jennifer Young
wish
I wish I were more disciplined. Jeff Bridges
wish followers
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros! Friedrich Nietzsche
wish true-and-false orthodoxy
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. George Bernard Shaw
world
For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished. Daniel Handler
world results activity
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. Arthur Schopenhauer
world birth changed
The world will be changed by western women. Dalai Lama
world changing-the-world chance
Every minute a chance to change the world… Dolores Huerta
world earth use
We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for. Dolores Huerta
world bigs knows
You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen. Dolly Parton
world
The world is my stage. Dolly Parton
world towns evening
If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it. Dino De Laurentiis
world should dies
We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone? Diogenes