Greater Quotes - Page 35

• There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

  James Patterson

  Trying, Dangerous, Greater Good

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• When you dance, do you feel desire? Do you feel as if you were summoning up a greater energy? When you dance, are there moments when you cease to be yourself?

  Paulo Coelho

  Being Yourself, Desire, Energy

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• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

  Robert Hughes

  Artist, Doubt, Inspirational Art

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• For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.

  John Berendt

  Cities, People, Personality

  John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.454, Vintage

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• You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

  Philip Roth

  Sea, Feelings, Doe

  Philip Roth (2008). “Indignation”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

  Jojo Moyes

  Mistake, Choices, Results

  "Me Before You". Book by Jojo Moyes, January 5, 2012.

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• Putting my hand in someone else’s has always been my definition of happiness. Before I fall asleep, often - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and go into the greater world - often, before I get up the courage to go into the vastness of sleep, I pretend that someone has my hand in theirs, and then I go, go to that enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even after that I don’t have courage, I dream.

  Clarice Lispector

  Dream, Struggle, Fall

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• How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?

  Ted Dekker

  Evil, Belief, Moral

  Ted Dekker (2008). “Sinner”, p.123, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

  Steve Jobs

  Teamwork, People, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Atheist, Sacrifice, Men

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• Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother — even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son’s death because his death was ugly and unfair. You’re grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Grief, Son

  "DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column №78: The Obliterated Place". therumpus.net. July 1, 2011.

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• So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, May, Ends

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• There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions—words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.” Will grabbed the sheaf of newspaper clippings he kept in a stack on his desk. “This, and these”—he gestured to the library’s teeming shelves—“they’re a testament to the country’s rich supernatural history.

  Libba Bray

  Country, Lying, Thinking

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• Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

  Idries Shah

  Men, Effort, Great Men

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.133, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

  Brené Brown

  Acceptance, Self, World

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.122, Penguin

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• There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

  Madeline Miller

  Grief, Thinking, Law

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Service is selflessness--the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don't often lift us up, or show us as the people we can rise up to become. The people who appear in this book--and others who did things I can't talk about--are my role models. They quietly live out the idea expressed in the Bible (John 15:13): "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Book, Men, Opposites

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• Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Passion, Eye

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1810, Delphi Classics

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• Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Leadership, Pain

  "On Healing a Broken World" by Katerina Pozzi Baratta, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2016.

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• The longer a person has been dead the greater is the tradition... If Buddha is alive you can barely tolerate him... You cannot believe this man has known the ultimate because he looks just like you... Hungry he needs food, sleepy he wants a bed, ill, he has to rest - just like you... That is why Jesus is worshiped now and yet he was crucified when he was alive. Alive, you crucify him; dead, you worship him.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "When the Shoe Fits: Talks on the Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu". Book by Rajneesh, 1976.

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• You cannot come to Christ unless the Spirit of God brings you. But what if you ignore His warnings? Then you are in the gravest danger, for some day God will no longer be speaking to you. Then it will be too late. Come to Christ while there is still time. Christ, God's greater Ark, stands ready to welcome you to safety today.

  Billy Graham

  Safety, What If, Ark

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• I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence.

  David Levithan

  Grateful, Taken, Writing

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.131, Egmont UK

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• The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.

  David Levithan

  Ocean, Wind, Doe

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.15, Egmont UK

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• What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Age, Together

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.318, Bantam

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