Pure Quotes - Page 18

• In terms of pure physical effort, today was probably as hard as I've worked in any part. I spent the morning rowing, including the change of speeds Arrius [the Roman commander] test Judah with. A real bone-breaker.

  Charlton Heston

  Morning, Real, Effort

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• Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

  May Sarton

  Self, Innocence

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.146, Open Road Media

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• My life is brillant, My love is pure.

  James Blunt

  Stupid, Love Is, Life Is

  "Song: 'You're Beautiful'". 2004.

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• Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the synonyms of the word Black. It's always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word White, it's always something pure, high and clean.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Lying, White

  "The Unfathomably Weird Case of Rachel Doležal" by Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. June 16, 2015.

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• This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and pure.' So deeply has this been recognized in India, that there we even speak of adultery in marriage, except when marriage is consummated in prayer.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Prayer, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.924, Manonmani Publishers

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• Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Light, Earth

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.118

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• We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.

  Walter Bagehot

  Science, Thinking, Ice

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Men, Mind

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• See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

  "The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi".

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• Wise woman healing teaches the importance of excellent nutrition during pregnancy, understanding that your form your child and yourself from the nourishment you receive in the forty weeks of pregnancy. Excellent nutrition includes pure water, controlled breath, abundant light, loving and respectful relationships, beauty and harmony in daily life, positive, joyous thoughts, and vital foodstuffs.

  Susun Weed

  Wise, Children, Pregnancy

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• There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.

  Wavy Gravy

  Art, Fun, Mistake

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• Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages

  Jean Paul

  Jesus, Hands, Age

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• Before you touch anybody you have to make sure that you are as pure as possible. If you don't purify yourself of all the inner duality, negativity can prevail through the flow of the psyche.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Healing, Negativity, Flow

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• It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

  Zadie Smith

  Bags, Easier, Hoover

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.196, Vintage

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• Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Spiritual, Joy, Peaceful

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• Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Funny, Fire

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.15, Jerome K. Jerome

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• God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Freedom, Light, Reason

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• Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Sensual, Together, Different

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business. Which, sadly, has now become more important than the artist or even the music itself.

  Rosanna Arquette

  Art, Business, Important

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• All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.

  Theodore Roethke

  Memories, Men, Shine On

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• Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.

  David McCullough

  Reading, Book, Feel Better

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• Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.

  Harville Hendrix

  Gold, Soup, Raw Emotion

  Harville Hendrix (1993). “Keeping the Love You Find”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Doors, Space, Breathtaking

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.79, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined.

  Paulo Freire

  Determination, Mean, Responsibility

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.26, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Apples, Mind

  Charles Lamb (1854). “The essays of Elia...”, p.128

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