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freedom butterfly deny
Charles Dickens I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.
freedom tyrants mind
Charles Caleb Colton Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
freedom water leaving
Alan Watts As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.
freedom disappointment ego
Chogyam Trungpa Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.
freedom nice air
Chogyam Trungpa When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.
freedom desire liberty
Edward Gibbon Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
freedom balance stubborn
Edward Gibbon A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince
freedom young exciting
David Hockney When you're very young, you suddenly find this marvellous freedom. It's quite exciting, and you're prepared to do anything.
fear inspire paradox
Charles Caleb Colton There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!
fear fields abundance
Charles Caleb Colton The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.
fear despise
Charles Caleb Colton We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
fear-god
Charles Spurgeon He who fears God has nothing else to fear.
fear belief power-of-love
Alan Paton It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
fearless church needs
Aiden Wilson Tozer A scared world needs a fearless church.
fear practice people
Chogyam Trungpa We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.
fear frightened bodhisattva
Chogyam Trungpa Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.
fear spite
Chin-Ning Chu In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
pain real power
Charles Caleb Colton To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
pain age youth
Charles Caleb Colton The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
pain shadow substance
Charles Caleb Colton Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
pain shadow may
Charles Caleb Colton Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
pain angel reflection
Charles Caleb Colton If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.
pain memories vices
Charles Caleb Colton Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
pain doors hands
Charles Caleb Colton Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
pain hands years
Charles Dickens On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?
pain god-love accepting
Charles Stanley Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.