Pure Quotes - Page 13

• I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Cliffs, Cocaine, Rappelling

  Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.169, Macmillan

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• A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.

  Hiromi

  Children, Growing Up, Mean

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• Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more than that, as a realm of pure possibility whence novel configurations of ideas and relations may arise

  Victor Turner

  Ideas, May, Possibility

  Victor Witter Turner (1967). “The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual”, p.97, Cornell University Press

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• You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Sea, Trying

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• The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.

  Tom DeLay

  Government, Gestapo, Epa

  Associated Press, July 29, 1995.

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• I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

  George Hickenlooper

  Movie, Art, Thinking

  "Rise and Fall on the Sunset Strip; George Hickenlooper Finds His “Zelig” with L.A. DJ Rodney Bingenh". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. March 26, 2004.

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• Thus far women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all of masculine origin. The true woman is as yet a dream of the future. A just government, a humane religion, a pure social life await her coming.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Dream, Men, Law

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ida Husted Harper, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1902). “History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900”

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• He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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• Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

  Gautama Buddha

  Meditation, Mind, Suffering

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• It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

  John Bentley

  Sports, Men, Games

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• Join me in the pure atmosphere of gratitude for life.

  Hafez

  Life, Encouraging, Gratitude

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• I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Teeth, May, Wheat

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• Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

  Mike Mason

  Memories, Heart, Suffering

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• Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Heart, Mirrors

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• At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.

  M. J. Ryan

  Gratitude, Joy, Soul

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• Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience....this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances.

  Rupert Spira

  Wisdom, Spiritual, Heart

  Rupert Spira (2016). “Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness”, New Harbinger Publications

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• When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.

  Michael Short

  Leadership, Lying, Greatness

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• By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, had been infused into my reconciled heart, — after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth had restored me to a new man.

  Cyprian

  Heart, Men, Light

  "The Writings of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage".

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• Love, when it is pure, has a revitalizing effect upon others, and in the presence of a truly loving person others grow and expand into a healthier state of being. Without deep reverence for the beloved, such a refreshing stream cannot flow from the heart of the lover.

  Vatsyayana

  Love, Heart, Loving Someone

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• When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspiring, Support, Intention

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• Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

  Paul Cezanne

  Color, Ideas, Rainbow

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• Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Experience, Enough

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.59, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

  Maxim Gorky

  Art, Truth, Class

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• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  Origen

  Wisdom, Son, Quality

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Now I find that in a state of pure obedience the mind learns contentment in appearing weak and foolish to that wisdom which is of the world; and in these lowly labors, they who stand in a low place and are rightly exercised under the cross will find nourishment.

  John Woolman

  Mind, Contentment, World

  "The Journal of John Woolman".

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