Ideals Quotes - Page 18

Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity

Henry B. Eyring

Marriage, Father, Heart

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As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.

Stephen Holden

Pride, Games, Two

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Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very devil himself. Have faith in man first, and then having faith in him, believe that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if he embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that they come, but from the want of higher ideals.

Swami Vivekananda

Faith, Real, Mistake

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1284, Manonmani Publishers

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The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves.

Swami Vivekananda

Faith, Men, Evil

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

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Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal.

Swami Vivekananda

Faith, Ignorance, Differences

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1116, Manonmani Publishers

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... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that exists, evidently, only in the contemplation of those who worship such abstractions; and I continue to notice that Natural Law bears an uncanny resemblance to ideal Platonic Horseshit.

Robert Anton Wilson

Real, Years, Law

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I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

Roger Nash Baldwin

Christian, Teaching, Liberty

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By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.

Fatema Mernissi

Beautiful, Children, Wall

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To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?

Jessie Willcox Smith

Children, Men, Careers

Catherine Connell Stryker, Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott, Violet Oakley (1976). “The Studios at Cogslea: Delaware Art Museum, February 20-March 28, 1976”

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The way we move within time is a kind of dance. We are always keeping time within one rhythm or another. Music, of course, is exemplary. One reason we love music so much is that it's so complete and the notes harmonize with one another in time to make a beautiful, ideal statement; not like our daily life where the rhythms are more subtle or hard to find or are constantly being interrupted or changed in ways that aren't so easy to handle.

Mel Weitsman

Beautiful, Moving, Way

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The ideal is not believing in, but believing from.

Eric Butterworth

Believe, Belief

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I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Home, Single Life, Together

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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

Henry Adams

Class, America, Boredom

Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles Vandersee (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams”, p.200, Harvard University Press

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I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the interiors so related to the form that they fuse. In less elaborate interior design this is always the ideal approach to color - used not only as just color alone.

Van Day Truex

Color, Design, Example

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To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

Swami Vivekananda

Religious, Mind, Importance

Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.83, Vivekananda Kendra

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Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life.

Wilferd Peterson

Character, Reflection, Blow

Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

Samuel Alexander

Self, Personality, Desire

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World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a produce of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world.

William O. Douglas

Order, Law, People

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A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

Albert Einstein

World Government, Law, Civilization

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The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

Ben Bagdikian

Government, Media, Diversity

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On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.

Kofi Annan

Peace, Heart, Honor

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Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspiration, Creativity, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.339, Рипол Классик

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The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.

Robert Benchley

Funny, Family, Dog

Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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The American Dream is freedom, prosperity, peace-and liberty and justice for all. That's a big dream. It's not always easy to achieve, but that's the ideal. More than any country in history we've made gains toward a democracy that is enviable throughout the world. Dreams require perseverance if they are to be realized, and fortunately we're a hard-working country and people. We are the luckiest people in history, just by the fact that we are Americans.

Donald Trump

Dream, Country, Perseverance

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Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.

Helen Rowland

Love, Men, Faithful

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