Deeper Quotes - Page 26

• Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of a creed that promises them a better life before it promises us anything, and embraces the sacrifices needed to make that better life. True love of country is giving ourselves to a cause and a purpose larger than ourselves. And that cause is to make liberty worth having, to make the pursuit of happiness deeper than the quest for personal pleasure, and to leave a legacy of progress and possibility.

  Eric Liu

  Love, Country, Children

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• In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Military, Army, Men

  T. E. Lawrence (2013). “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”, p.349, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at a flower, its radiance, its fragrance, its stillness is another moment's experience of something deeper within. When we hold a baby, when we hear extraordinary music, when we look into the eyes of a great saint, what draws us is that deep homesickness for our true nature, for the peace and healing that is our birthright. This homesickness for God directs us toward the healing we took birth for.

  Stephen Levine

  God, Baby, Flower

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• ...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it.

  Huston Smith

  God, Compass, Christianity

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• When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self Esteem, Emotional, Poison

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.98, Penguin

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• The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.

  Alexis Carrel

  Prayer, Reality, Understanding

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• Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.

  Chad Harbach

  Life, Believe, World Issues

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• I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Thinking, Brain

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely, and in a humility that passes understanding. If the world exists not chiefly that we may love God, but that God may love us, yet that very fact, on a deeper level, is so for our sakes. If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Humility, Omnipotence

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• People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working with each other as Jeff Haynes has done here-we may be surprised to find what deeper unity all human beings have.

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Race, People

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• The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.

  Alan Cohen

  Confidence, Love You, Self Worth

  Alan Cohen (2006). “Relax Into Wealth: How to Get More by Doing Less”, p.46, Penguin

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• As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

  Donna Tartt

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of ourselves and our ancestors, the result is a deeper understanding for individuals and in consequence, a broader culture for the nation.

  Christopher Tunnard

  Past, Understanding, Collaboration

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• If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Song, Memories

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.

  Robert Redford

  Effort, Challenges, Criticism

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• Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the continuously recurring rhythm of progress-as inevitable, as natural and benevolent as sleep.

  J. M. E. McTaggart

  Death, Sleep, Progress

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• To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Essence, Knowing

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• People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.

  Carson Kressley

  People, Mind, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The solution begins with a deeper transformation that must occur in each of us. I AM isn’t as much about what you can do, as who you can be. And from that transformation of being, action will naturally follow.

  Tom Shadyac

  Action, Transformation, Can Do

  "It’s Time to Shift Into Your Heart-Gear" by Carolyn Ziel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

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• From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spring, Sorrow, Affliction

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• History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

  Oswald Spengler

  Reality, History, Imagination

  Oswald Spengler (1961). “Form and actuality”

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• The resentment I felt inside was not hatred for being imprisoned or for Victor who had betrayed me but something deeper: a rebellion against the very way of things that condemned men to be imprisoned inside their own identities.

  MacDonald Harris

  Men, Hatred, Identity

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• It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

  Bram Stoker

  Roots, Evil, Selfishness

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.125, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• You can't expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it's a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.

  Lily Tomlin

  Confused, Way, Steps

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• In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.

  Anoushka Shankar

  Looks, Sides, Aspect

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