Indestructible Quotes - Page 5

• In your 20s, you feel like you're indestructible...In your 30s, you think...I'll be around here a little longer, so I'm going to take better care of myself.

  John Belushi

  Thinking, Care, Littles

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• When spiritual friends share their stories, the others listen without working. They rest. There’s nothing to fix, nothing to improve. A spiritual community feels undisturbed quiet as they listen, certainly burdened . . . but still resting in the knowledge that the life within, the passion for holiness, is indestructible. It needs only to be nourished and released.

  Larry Crabb

  Spiritual, Passion, Community

  Larry Crabb (2007). “Becoming a True Spiritual Community: A Profound Vision of What the Church Can Be”, p.94, Thomas Nelson

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• Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Eye, Hands

  Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy (2008). “Gone with the Wind”, p.680, Simon and Schuster

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• The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Frail, Knows, Fragile

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• Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

  William James

  Life, Determination, Successful

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社

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• The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Lying, Play

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.7

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• When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Practice, Knowing, Meditation

  Rudolf Steiner (1994). “How to Know Higher Worlds”, p.36, SteinerBooks

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• It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.

  Candace Bushnell

  Be Careful, Feels, Hard

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• Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nature, Cat, Circles

  Ambrose Bierce (2006). “Terror by Night: Classic Ghost and Horror Stories”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spiritual, Eye, Shine On

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• I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

  George Sand

  Passion, Writing, Tasks

  Letter to Jules Boucoiran, March 4, 1831.

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• I'm an indestructible master of war.

  David Draiman

  War, Masters

  "Song: 'Indestructible'". 2008.

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• Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Self, Essence

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.16, New World Library

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• I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage, the African race, united under one federal government, will emerge not as just another world bloc to flaunt its wealth and strength, but as a Great Power whose greatness is indestructible because it is built not on fear, envy and suspicion, nor won at the expense of others, but founded on hope, trust, friendship and directed to the good of all mankind.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Believe, Greatness, Race

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• The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Country, Jew, Fury

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• Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

  Anne Rice

  Streets Of Paris, Age, Paris Fashion

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.246, Ballantine Books

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• People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples. We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Blood, Two, People

  Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Douglas MacArthur (1966). “Reports of General MacArthur: suppl. MacArthur in Japan: the occupation, military phase”

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• I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

  Janet Jackson

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Mother, Ignorance

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.7

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• Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, May, Way

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

  Heinrich Heine

  Ideas, Christianity, Immortal

  Heinrich Heine (1985). “The Romantic School and Other Essays: Heinrich Heine”, p.130, A&C Black

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• The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.

  Adrienne Rich

  Ocean, Moon, Monsters

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• The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

  William James

  Race, Vagueness, Free Will

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社

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• For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

  William Carlos Williams

  Anticipation, Descent, Lost

  1948 Paterson, bk.2,'Sunday in the Park',1.

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• Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

  George Eliot

  Children, Deeds, May

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.681, Broadview Press

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