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• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Character, Angel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Being Happy, Money

  Epicurus (2016). “Principal Doctrines”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

  Anatole France

  Life, Change, People Changing

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France

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• Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

  Pope Francis

  Attitude, Vanity, Church

  "'Careerism and vanity: Sins of the Church'". Vatican Insider Interview, www.lastampa.it. February 24, 2012.

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• Jesuits make a vow of obedience to the Pope. But if the Pope is a Jesuit, perhaps he has to make a vow of obedience to the General of the Jesuits! I don’t know how to resolve this … I feel a Jesuit in my spirituality; in the spirituality of the Exercises, the spirituality deep in my heart.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Should Have, Pope

  Pope Francis' In-Flight Press Conference from Rio De Janeiro, w2.vatican.va. July 22, 2013.

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• The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Faith, Spiritual, Religious

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

  James Anthony Froude

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

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• Where there is love there is life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Truth

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Acceptance

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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• Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

  Nhat Hanh

  Positive, Buddhist, Thinking Negative

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• In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Opportunity, Offering

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• There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Buddhist, Inspiration

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Atheist, Self

  "On Spiritual Truths" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Clever, Reality, Mirrors

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting at Zero”, p.11, Heyne Verlag

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• Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Unique, Men

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

  Ernest Holmes

  God, Faith, Spiritual

  Ernest Holmes (2009). “What We Believe: The Essence of Science of Mind”, p.16, The Floating Press

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• A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Change, Dream

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1896). “Morse, John T.Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes”

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• Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  God, Spiritual, Life And Love

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• I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Nature, Travel, Religion

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• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Wisdom, Prayer

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

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• In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Nature

  'Some Reasons Why' (1881) pt. 8 'The New Testament' in 'The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll' (1915) vol. 2, p. 315

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• My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

  Wyclef Jean

  Eye, Grandfather, Remember

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