Greater Quotes - Page 26

• Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2016

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• Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Girl, Book, Toss

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• The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Government, Evil, Choices

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• Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Hurt, Tired, Challenges

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• Great blessings await us at this time, and will soon be poured out upon us, if we are faithful in all things, for we are even entitled to greater spiritual blessings than they [the faithful at the time of Christ] were, because they had Christ in person with them, to instruct them in the great plan of salvation. His personal presence we have not, therefore we have need of greater faith.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Spiritual, Blessing, Faithful

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• Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Self, Heroism, Preservation

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• When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.

  David Hume

  Men, Decision, Miracle

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.88, VM eBooks

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• Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

  Bernard Beckett

  Fear, People, Monsters

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.

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• Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed.

  Joseph Heller

  Successful, Names, Two

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.

  Eudora Welty

  People, Littles, Mystery

  Eudora Welty (2011). “The Optimist's Daughter”, p.81, Vintage

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• To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

  Anais Nin

  Suicide, Sacrifice, Triumph

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• Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Heart, Mind, Depth

  Patrick O'Brian (2004). “Master and commander ; Post captain ; H.M.S. Surprise ; The Mauritius command”

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• The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith

  John Gresham Machen

  Children, Progress, Theology

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• It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

  Anne Rice

  Giving, Suffering, Our Words

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• For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even less of this valuable substance scenting him and the very air about him there can be no doubt of the matter; and such is the nature of the human mind that he experiences a far greater real benefit than the drug itself would provide, were it deprived of its stench.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Real, Air, Drug

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• We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

  Henry Cloud

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Henry Cloud from Dec 22, 2016

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• Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Strong, Mistake

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• ...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

  Irving Stone

  Light, Heat, Fierce

  Irving Stone (1987). “The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo”, Signet

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• When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice.

  James Dashner

  Destiny, Choices, Soul

  James Dashner (2009). “The Journal of Curious Letters”, p.377, Simon and Schuster

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• Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?

  Yann Martel

  Giving, Reptiles, Answers

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

  Leonard Cohen

  Pain, Passion, Heart

  Song: Villanelle For Our Time, Album: Dear Heather, 2004

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• But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

  Emily Giffin

  Life, Mean, Loss

  Emily Giffin (2014). “The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 1: Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Love the One You're With”, p.388, St. Martin's Press

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• Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

  Dan Brown

  Faith, Religious, Jesus

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

  Romain Gary

  Literature

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• I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself

  P. C. Cast

  Fighting, Doubt, Enemy

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.154, Macmillan

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