Powerful Quotes - Page 5

• there's nothing as powerful as a made-up mind!

  Susan Jeffers

  Mind, Opinion, Stubbornness

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• Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

  William Gibson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.

  Adyashanti

  Order, Mind, Clarity

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• Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Justice, Wells, Subjects

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• Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance.

  Lenny Henry

  Thinking, White, People

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• Death is not cold and frightful. Death is the sun in all its powerful intensity.

  June Havoc

  Death, Sun, Cold

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• A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

  James Madison

  Government, Names, Allies

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.83

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• They think written words are even more powerful,’ whispered the toad. ‘They think all writing is magic. Words worry them. See their swords? They glow blue in the presence of lawyers.

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Thinking, Blue

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• Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Science, Hands

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.118

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• A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Anger, Men, Blow

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• Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.

  Stephen Covey

  Lenses, World, 7 Habits

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.31, Mango Media Inc.

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• The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

  Francis William Newman

  Men, Instinct, Violent

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• I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspiration, Purpose, Answers

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• Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.

  Matthew Quick

  Believe, Eye, Trying

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.165, Pan Macmillan

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• Hell is paved with good samaritans.

  William Holden

  Witty, Humorous, Religion

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• Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Motivational, Achievement

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• The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.

  Marianne Williamson

  Healing, Heart, Enemy

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.

  Christopher Titus

  Lying, Secret, Life Is

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• Perhaps one of the most powerful keys to determining our experience of the months ahead comes from a shift in thinking that invites us beyond asking, 'What can I get from the world that exists,' to asking, 'What can I offer to the world that is awakening?' The way we answer this question as individuals becomes our collective answer to what comes next.

  Gregg Braden

  Future, Thinking, Keys

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• He is most powerful who governs himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Most Powerful

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• The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.

  Bill Drayton

  Hands, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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• Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit doesn't tap into the mystical aspect of it either in fact, that usually kills it because people don't want to see sex so much as they want to experience the emotions that go along with it. These things are hard to convey in film because sex is such a mystery.

  David Lynch

  Sex, People, Doorways

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

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• The question is absurd: when you ask, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then does He allow suffering?', what you are really asking is, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then can He not make me (the questioner) - who is just as much a part of a universe in which there is suffering as is any other part - be at the same time the exact same questioner, but one who is now part and parcel of a universe in which there is no suffering?' Which, reduced down, is the same thing as asking, 'Why can there not be, at the same time, X and the preclusion of X?'

  Emo Philips

  Asking Why, Suffering, Doe

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