Mean Quotes - Page 9

• Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Blessing, Kind

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• When I'm feeling confused by my awakening process, that usually means I'm on the right track.

  Samiyam

  Confused, Track, Feelings

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• Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Space, Be True To Yourself, Being True

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• We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Jesus, Children

  Interview, 16 Mar. 1976

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• I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Education, Believe, Creativity

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• You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world," that is, there is no "you" that is real or in any world. "The world is in you" means that the world is in your "mind" and is nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced imaginings.]

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Mind, World

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• Only interested in himself and profiting from the war as an unscrupulous entrepreneur, and not in being a patriot: "I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me."

  Clark Gable

  War, Believe, Entrepreneur

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• You want appreciation. Even though you like what's happening now doesn't mean that you still don't want appreciation or greater stimulation. It just means you're not using something in your now as your excuse to not let in all those things that you've been wanting. The perfect creative stance is satisfaction where I am, and eagerness for more.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Perfect, Creative

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• It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Home, Modesty, Persons

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• My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Ambition, Men

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• In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the questions cannot, by any means, be decided with greater certainty, than by ascertaining, on any side, the true interests of mankind. If any false opinion, embraced from appearances, has been found to prevail; as soon as farther experience and sounder reasoning have given us juster notions of human affairs, we retract our first sentiment, and adjust anew the boundaries of moral good and evil.

  David Hume

  Determination, Philosophy, Views

  David Hume (2010). “Moral and Political Philosophy”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.

  Stephen Covey

  Running, Long, Justice

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• The unbreakable bond between love of God and love of neighbor is emphasized. One is so closely connected to the other that to say that we love God becomes a lie if we are closed to our neighbor or hate him altogether. Saint John's words should rather be interpreted to mean that love of neighbor is a path that leads to the encounter with God, and that closing our eyes to our neighbor also blinds us to God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Hate, Lying, Eye

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• Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.

  Francis of Assisi

  Humility, Sight, Mind

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• Men may deprive me of property and honour; sickness may take away my strength and other means of serving You; I may even lose Your grace by sin; but never, never will I lose my hope in You. I will cherish it unto that dreadful moment when all hell will be unchained to snatch my soul away. "No one has hoped in the Lord and has been confounded"

  Claude de la Colombiere

  Men, Grace, Soul

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• It [motherhood] has changed absolutely everything. I mean, it's changed my life. I think I've changed as a human being more since I've had Kai than in any other period in my life...It's such an incredible catalyst for growth. I found myself questioning absolutely everything: how I spend my time, how I speak, what kind of projects I work on, how I look at the world.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Motherhood, Thinking, Touching

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• I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

  George MacDonald

  Christian, Believe, Teaching

  George MacDonald (1994). “An expression of character: the letters of George MacDonald”, Eerdmans Pub Co

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• The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.

  Chris Carter

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Responsibility, Men

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• Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

  Jalal Talabani

  Determination, Self, Independence

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• I can't feel my face. I mean I can touch it. But I can't feel it inside.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Blow, Faces, Feels

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• The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

  Anne Robinson

  America, World, Modern

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• I am not against money - remember. Don't misinterpret me: I am not against money. I am not against anything. Money is a means. If you are happy and you have money, you will become more happy. If you are unhappy and you have money, you will become more unhappy because what will you do with your money? Your money will enhance your pattern, whatsoever it is. If you are miserable and you have power, what will you do with your power? You will poison yourself more with your power, you will become more miserable.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Unhappy, Poison

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• I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Love, Personality, Way

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.324, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I believe that you become yourself every single day of your life through your choices and how you think. And that's constantly changing every day... You are constantly changing, evolving through your experiences, how you interpret your experiences, and how you choose to do things in the future based on those experiences... Being yourself means you think with your own mind, and you make your own choices and that makes you you.

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, Believe, Thinking

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