Pillars Quotes

• The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch.
  Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you.
  Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

  Merle Shain

  People, Sometimes, Enough

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• Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

  Pliny the Elder

  Dream, Hope, Men

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• Be patient; patience is a pillar of faith.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Patient, Be Patient

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• The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Truth, Freedom, Society

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.1935, Delphi Classics

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• Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, World, Love And Compassion

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

  Meryl Streep

  Life, Self Esteem, Self Respect

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• A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.

  Lea Michele

  Home, People, Ships

  "Lea Michele Opens Up About Life After Cory" by Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. November 30, 2013.

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• Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

  Rebecca Ruter Springer

  Love, Life, Deeds

  Rebecca Ruter Springer (2009). “My Dream of Heaven: A Nineteenth Century Spiritual Classic”, p.21, Harrison House Publishers

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• Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

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• When you hear a word from God it resonates in the pillars of your soul.

  Karen Wheaton

  Soul, Your Soul

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• There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over. Those three things lead to the fourth pillar which is the hope and dream that tomorrow is going to be better. Without that you have not much at all.

  Bill Walton

  Dream, Home, Starting Over

  Source: blitzweekly.com

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• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

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• The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Average, Bridges, Worst

  "Modern lover". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

  Frans de Waal

  Compassion, Justice, Morality

  "Monkeys Join Wall Street Protest" by Frans de Waal, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2011.

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• The principle of faith is as firm as the very pillars of heaven.

  Rudger Clawson

  Heaven, Principles, Firm

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• There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fear, Anger, Fire

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  Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

  Grace Kelly

  Family, Mom, Sisterhood

  Attributed in "On Being Blonde: Wit And Wisdom From The World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 78), 2004.

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• How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

  Teresa of Avila

  Strong, Prayer, Saint

  St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.49, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

  Phillips Brooks

  Soul, Way, Temples

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• Typically, people allow differences and mistakes to lower their respect and value for other people. But you know the pillar of honor is strong in a relationship when you can look at the other person and say, “You are really different from me. It makes me sad when I see you making that choice. But I love you. I value you, I believe in you, and I am here for you in this relationship.

  Danny Silk

  Strong, Mistake, Believe

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• Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf

  Compassion, Two, Existence

  Victor Frederick Weisskopf, V. Stefan (1998). “Physics and Society: Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists”, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I wrote my will across the sky, in stars

  T. E. Lawrence

  Stars, Sky

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom dedication, l. 1 (1926)

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• Never undervalue the idea of partners. Understanding your strengths and then going out trying to find like-minded people who will be another pillar of your success.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Ideas, People, Understanding

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• Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

  George Washington

  Society, Essentials, Morality

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.80, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist

  Seth

  Artist, Ideas, Two

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