Pure Quotes - Page 17

• If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined.

  Paulo Freire

  Determination, Mean, Responsibility

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.26, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice - it's pure and simple.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Sacrifice, Simple, Joy

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• A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Apples, Mind

  Charles Lamb (1854). “The essays of Elia...”, p.128

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• For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, White, Wish

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• When you help people, don't wait around to hear them say, "Thank you." A lot of times we do good things, but in the back of our mind we're hoping to get some appreciation. But if you make your intentions pure, and you expect only from Allah, He will take more care of you than you could ever imagine.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Appreciation, People, Waiting

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Dec 02, 2014

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• People should hear the pure blues - the #‎ blues we used to have when we had no money.

  Muddy Waters

  People, Used, Should

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• A formally harmonious product needs no decoration, it should be elevated through pure form.

  Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

  Needs, Form, Should

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• Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Depth, Misery, Harmony

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

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• Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree

  India.Arie

  Acceptance, Tree, Tolerance

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• I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

  Nancy Mitford

  Writing, Misery, Pleasure

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge of a pleasurable death, just because one chooses beauty over life. There is nothing in this world to hold something so pure, so divine except a loving heart. And it is the only manner through which love recognises love; the language of love has no alphabet, no words.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Heart, Language Of Love, Silence

  Faraaz Kazi (2012). “Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!”, p.38, Faraaz Kazi

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• Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Fall, Fate

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• At the head of all these laws, in and through every particle of matter and force, stands One through whose command the wind blows, the fire burns, the clouds rain, and death stalks upon the earth. And what is His nature? He is everywhere the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All Merciful. Thou art our Father. Thou art our beloved Friend.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Father, Rain

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.139, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou art our beloved friend, Thou art the source of all strength; give us strength. Thou art He that beareth the burdens of the universe; help me bear the little burden of this life." Thus sang the Rishis of the Vedas. And how to worship Him? Through love. "He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Art, Father

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.12, editionNEXT.com

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• Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord" here means Ishvara, the concept of which transcends what you in the West mean by the personal God. "He from whom this universe proceeds, in whom it rests, and to whom it returns, He is Ishvara, the Eternal, the Pure, the All-Merciful, the Almighty, the Ever-Free, the All-Knowing, the Teacher of all teachers, the Lord who of His own nature is inexpressible Love."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Mean, Knowing

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3193, Manonmani Publishers

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• A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Jobs, Spring, Writing

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.198, Grove Press

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• The concept (of happiness) is universal. In Buddhism, it is called causeless joy, in Christianity, the kingdom of heaven within, and in Judaism it is called ashrei, an inner sense of holiness and health. Is Islam it is called falah, happiness and well-being, and in Hinduism it is called ananda, or pure bliss.

  Marci Shimoff

  Happiness, Buddhism, Joy

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline (2009). “Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Music, Art, Calm

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Balance, Fundamentals, Elements

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• Deep down am I superstitious? No. Do I believe in trying to be as kind as possible and as compassionate as possible because ultimately you're alone with yourself and your own conscience, and you want that to be as clear as possible? That's not superstition. You have to just try and stay pure and know what you value.

  Nicole Kidman

  Believe, Trying, Superstitions

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Sep 02, 2016

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• You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.

  Rumi

  Journey, Feet, Dust

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• There is no greater power in heaven or on earth than pure, unconditional love.

  Wayne Dyer

  Unconditional Love, Heaven, Earth

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• O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all.

  Rumi

  Love Is, Deep Love, Sufi Mystic

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “O Love”

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• I understood that at the core, our essence is made of pure love. We are pure love-every single one of us. How can we not be, if we come from the Whole and return to it? I knew that realizing this meant never being afraid of who we are. Therefore, being love and being our true self is one and the same thing!

  Anita Moorjani

  Self, Essence, Who We Are

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from May 06, 2013

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• Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet.

  Mooji

  Heart, Joy, And Love

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