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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.
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
wisdom hands monsters
We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.
wisdom verbs
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
wisdom flower suffering
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
wisdom children keeping-secrets
No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
wisdom men animal
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
yield statistics imperfect
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. Poul Anderson
self play feelings
The whole body-mind thing comes into play, when you are feeling that self-doubt and your body is not going to help you if you're not paying attention. Your body's going to go with the self-doubt and make you feel worse, so by making the adjustments - pulling your shoulders back, standing up straight, walking in a more sort of expansive way - all sorts of little things will help pull you out of that self-doubt. Amy Cuddy
self different ready
I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens. Angel Olsen
self yes-and-no debate
The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. Anatole Broyard
self voice boredom
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self. Anais Nin
self culture tasks
We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.
self cities needs
One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
self should
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
self suffering causes
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
self indulge-in imagination
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.