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• We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fate, Blame, Praise

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.107, editionNEXT.com

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• You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Loving Yourself, Alive, Four Agreements

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• If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

  Bruce Barton

  God, Character, Expression

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• The expression of divinity is in variety.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Expression, Variety

  "Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe". Locus Magazine Interview, www.locusmag.com. September 1998.

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• All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Crazy, Believe, Half

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1195, Manonmani Publishers

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• Never forget that you have the spark of the divine in you. Whatever you do or don't do won't change this fact.

  Elaine A. Cannon

  Sparks, Facts, Never Forget

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• There's divinity within because we come from the divine,
  A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time:
  When the wind blows, and the world turns,
  And the rain drops, and the baby cries,
  And the bird flies, and the ground quake,
  And the stars gleam.

  Q-Tip

  Baby, Stars, Rain

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• If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Believe, Heart, Essence

  Ludwig Feuerbach (1854). “The essence of Christianity”, p.8

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• Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Science, Law, Physics

  1970 Do WhatYou Will,'The Summing-Up: Meredith Dawe'.

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• Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Genius

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

  Alan Cohen

  Needs, Want, Worship

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• The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Essence, Soul, Vedanta

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Witty, Character, Imagination

  "The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics" edited by Frederick C. Beiser, (p. 131), 1996.

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• I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

  William Howard Taft

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true north.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Believe, Soul, Mind

  Elizabeth Dole's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 31, 2004.

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• The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Language, English Language, Wells

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• At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Distance, Thinking, Profound

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• Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.

  Heinrich Heine

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.171

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• It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

  Aristotle

  Thinking, Excellent, Divine

  Aristotle (2012). “The Metaphysics”, p.193, Roger Bishop Jones

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• We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life.

  Walt Whitman

  Giving, May, Divine

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.89, NYU Press

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• The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Want, Evoke

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.

  Theognis of Megara

  Men, Giving, Excellence

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• Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thinking, Divine, Celestial

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• As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Hands, Knives, Two

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (13), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, the true believers in each of these faiths are atheists regarding the specific sacred tenets of all other faiths. Christianity rejects the proposition that the Quran contains the infallible words of the creator of the universe. Muslims and Jews reject the divinity of Jesus.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Jesus, Atheist, Miracle

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