Enlightening Quotes - Page 6

• I think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a matter of your attitude. Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

  Marla Runyan

  Wisdom, Attitude, Thinking

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• [A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.

  Candy Chang

  Motivation, Inspiration, Knowing

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• Nature is not human hearted.

  Laozi

  Nature, Hearted, Human Heart

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• As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

  Germany Kent

  Example

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• We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and mans oppression until Liberty enlightens the world.

  Grover Cleveland

  Home, Ignorance, Light

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• In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

  Tammy Bruce

  Important, Details, Reactions

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• I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening.

  Mary Roach

  Writing, Australia, Doe

  "Spook and Stiff author Mary Roach". Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2010.

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• We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, School, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Yankee in Canada”, p.35, Graphic Arts Books

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• Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Illumination, Car

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• I think I lot of young people feel like they have no purpose, so I try to enlighten them with my life and show them you can do whatever you put your mind to.

  Rahki

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Bigger, Knows

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2017

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• We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

  Matthew Fox

  Pain, Laughter, Silly

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• Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Steps, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.252, Graphic Arts Books

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• Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?

  Rebecca West

  Sex, Men, Two

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.139, Open Road Media

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• Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Enemy, Tragedy

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people's beliefs!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Important, Honest

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• A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.

  James Patterson

  Falling In Love, Wind, People

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• There's no greater honor, as an actor, to be a part of a project that changes lives, and awakens and enlightens and entertains.

  Wendell Pierce

  Life Changing, Honor, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• When you have the humility to listen to the Bible it does more than enlighten us, it transforms us.

  Mario Daniel Vega

  Humility, Doe

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• Disciples [deep people] are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one, because someone has taken the pains to discipline, to instruct and enlighten, to nurture and train one that is younger.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Pain, Taken, Discipline

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• In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.

  Bill Crawford

  Reflection, World, Beam

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• Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

  Saint Augustine

  Errors, Light, Wind

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• It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Golden, Walks

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• It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column - however you define that, be it making a bunch of dough, which the actors never see much of, or whether it's a piece that's enlightening or stays with the audience maybe six, seven or even eight or 10 years later.

  Brendan Fraser

  Nice, Eight, Years

  "Inkheart - Brendan Fraser interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.

  Confucius

  Three, Lessons, Enthusiasm

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