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wisdom destiny want
For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be. Thomas Merton
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 emotional mind
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds Thomas Merton
wisdom men infinite
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. Thomas Carlyle
wisdom ideas mind
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state. Thomas Carlyle
wisdom sweet tea
It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring. Sam Levenson
wisdom men silence
A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence. Saadi
wisdom islamic thee
Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me. Saadi
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity. Baruch Spinoza
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men goes-on prometheus
And man will go on. Man, not men. Ayn Rand
men years advice
That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad. Calvin Coolidge
men happiness-and-success foundation
The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life. Richard G. Scott
men hands way-in-life
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand. Sydney Smith
men mind sides
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him. Anna Jameson
men childhood pay
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. Anna Jameson
men rights hands
Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man. Anna Jameson
risk secret wish
Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do? Anne Lamott
risk racing accepting
I have to accept risk as a racing driver. Emerson Fittipaldi
risk misunderstood trying
You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. Edie Sedgwick
risk doubt risk-it
When in doubt, risk it Holbrook Jackson
risk alive ifs
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk. Henrik Ibsen
risk might territory
If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory. John L. Phillips
risk criticism
Criticism is a life without risk. John Lahr
risk want living-my-life
I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks. John Barrowman
risk soul nourishment
The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks. Jim Lehrer