Greater Quotes - Page 38

• I think we’re part of a greater wisdom that we will ever understand; a higher order, call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. It doesn’t punish, it doesn’t reward, it doesn’t judge at all. It just is.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Order, Judging

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• There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Kindness, Empathy

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• The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.

  David Platt

  Retirement, Taken, Eye

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• And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

  James Lee Burke

  People, Waste, Clock

  James Lee Burke (2010). “Heaven's Prisoners”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• ...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Anxiety, Failing, Fear Of Death

  Irvin D. Yalom (2010). “Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death”, p.49, John Wiley & Sons

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• Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Emotional

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.127, Penguin

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• The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

  Paullina Simons

  Love You

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• There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well.

  Anthony Marra

  Memories, Years, Family And Friends

  Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.132, Random House

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• We don't have a choice in how or when our bad days will blindside us. But what we do choose is how we allow them to leave us once they're gone. You can use those moments as a catalyst to spur you on to greater things or you can let it be the event that breaks you and leaves you shattered and forever lost in darkness.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Bad Day, Choices, Forever

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• But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Thinking, Effort, Relief

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2012). “The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

  Richard Branson

  Powerful, Passion, World

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• I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Running, Passion, Ambition

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• I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Happiness, Hurt

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 18, 2013.

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• There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Loss, World, Reason

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.67, Penguin

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• She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Waiting, Solitude

  Albert Camus (1964). “The fall, & Exile and the kingdom”, Random House Inc

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• A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sadness, Fire, Light

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

  Steven Erikson

  Grief, Soul, Ends

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• The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.

  Christian D. Larson

  Strong, Purpose, Mercy

  Christian D. Larson (2007). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

  Veronica Roth

  Courage, Giving Up, Pain

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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• Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Doe, Capacity

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• Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Real, Love Is, Perspective

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “White Apples”, p.294, Macmillan

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• Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

  Holly Black

  Cat, Voice, Delight

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• Your mind creates everything. Your conscious mind has much greater power than you can ever imagine. Your mind can create blessings or disasters, can heal or harm, can bring abundance or absence. It is up to your mind whether the world looks hopeful or hopeless.

  Ilchi Lee

  Blessing, Hopeful, Mind

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from Jul 06, 2015

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• Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Giving, Meditation

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