Midst Quotes - Page 4

• No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

  James Madison

  Freedom, War, Democracies Have

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

  Kathy Mattea

  Pain, Joy, Earth

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• Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Gratitude, Jesus, Prayer

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.115, ICS Publications

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• One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Struggle, Men, Expanding Universe

  Letter to Georg Brandes, February 17, 1871.

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• Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Distance, Life Is Like, Landscape

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Beautiful, Loving Life, Giving

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• The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

  Karl Marx

  Animal, Political, Politics

  Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA

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• Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

  Max Muller

  Memories, Together, Forgotten

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

  Barack Obama

  Calling, Sometimes, Advocating

  "Obama: 'Fear' drives voters" by Carol E.Lee, www.politico.com. October 16, 2010.

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• The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

  Pope John Paul II

  Family, Lying, Selfish

  Pope John Paul II (1984). “John Paul II and the Laity”, Le Jacq Pub

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• If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

  Ramakrishna

  Self, Way, Firsts

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

  Philip Sidney

  Courage, Knights, Bravery

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.72

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• In the midst of life, we are in death.

  Agatha Christie

  Life

  Agatha Christie (1986). “And then there were none”, Pocket

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• In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Summer, Recovery

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• A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

  Jacques Maritain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

  James Levine

  Revolution, Evolution

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• In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

  Knute Nelson

  Fitness, Sleep, Hard Times

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• Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Travel, Adventure, Next

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• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  Wally Lamb

  Attention, Stories, Hardship

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• In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Literature, Bitterness

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1855.

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• A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Marriage, Memories, Husband

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.35, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

  Joshua Slocum

  Party, Rain, Cities

  Joshua Slocum (2005). “Sailing Alone around the World”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

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• The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Heart, Prosperity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

  Karen Armstrong

  Suffering, Teach

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• In the silences I make in the midst of the turmoil of life I have appointments with God. From these silences I come forth with spirit refreshed, and with a renewed sense of power. I hear a voice in the silences, and become increasingly aware that it is the voice of God.

  David Brainerd

  Voice, Silence, Spirit

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