Pure Quotes - Page 30

• What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Appreciation, Heart, Mean

  "Sketches and Travels in London: To which are Added Novels by Eminent Hands, and Character Sketches".

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• The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.

  Thomas Sowell

  Political, Economy, Realms

  Thomas Sowell (2001). “The Quest for Cosmic Justice”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

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• It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized.

  Virginia Woolf

  Stress, Simple, Men

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

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• I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.

  Saul Bellow

  Book, Essentials, Tables

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• I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Crazy, Long, Nine

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• I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Song, Opportunity, Player

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• DREAM PREDICTION ELITE is the realization of true amazement in your audiences reactions. This is PURE GOLD - A REAL WINNER

  Banachek

  Dream, Real, Gold

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• The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness.
  The technique is: Just feel not disturbed.
  The disturbing influence could be a blessing of Mother Nature to develop the habit to make
  best use out of every situation.
  Every situation is God Sent. With this supreme wisdom of life any situation can be used
  to our advantage and regarded as a blessing of Mother Nature.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mother, Blessing, Technique

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• If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Kindness, Compassion

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.190, Penguin

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• Direct the glance of apprehension & inquiry to pure consciousness, in its own absolute Being.

  Edmund Husserl

  Inquiry, Consciousness, Glances

  Edmund Husserl (2014). “Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology”, p.154, Routledge

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• Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creativity, Movement, Fields

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• You are not merely the body; you are 100% Pure Being. But you must find this out for yourself. It must become your own discovery, happening in your innermost being.

  Mooji

  Discovery, Body, Happenings

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• Pure happiness can only be attained through developing our mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Mind, Pure Happiness, Developing

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.44, Tharpa Publications US

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• There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Would Be, Lunatic Asylums

  Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand

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• I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Winning, Two

  Charles Spurgeon (1997). “God's Grace to You”, p.7, Whitaker House

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• The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Self, Perfect

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• Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Thinking, Fantasy

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• May you be children of God, pure and unblameable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (cf. Phil. 1:15): and may you never be entangled in the snares of the wicked that go round about, or bound with the chains of your sins. May the Word in you never be smothered with the cares of this life and so make you unfruitful: but may you walk in the King's Highway, turning aside neither to the right hand nor to the left, but led by the Spirit through the narrow gate.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Kings, Children

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• God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent glass, shine forth like gold in the sun, like diamonds of the purest water, but they shine for God and the angels, not revealing their brightness to men, although at times, by God's ordering, they do shine even for them, by the light of their faith, their virtues, when necessary, similar to a candle put on a candlestick in a room, and lighting the room with all those who are in it. (cf. Mt. 5:15).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Angel, Men

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• Men seized of the urge to have a knowledge of God and to be pure in mind devote all their gathered energies to this one task. While they still live in the corruption of the flesh they give themselves to that service in which they will persevere when the corruption has been laid aside. And already they come in sight of what the Lord and Savior held out when He said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God' (Mt. 5:8).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Blessed, Heart

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.45, Paulist Press

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• The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this means first of all is that each day Christ should reign among holy men. And this happens when the devil's power has been driven out of our hearts through the expulsion of sinful foulness and when God has begun to reign within us amid the good odors of virtue. With fornication vanquished, chastity rules; with anger overcome, peace is king; with pride under foot, humility is sovereign.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Kings, Father

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• I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to know, unseeing and unknowing, that which lies beyond all vision and knowledge. For this would be really to see and to know: to praise the Transcendent One in a transcending way... We would be like sculptors who set out to carve a statue. They remove every obstacle to the pure view of the hidden image, and simply by the act of clearing aside they show up the beauty which is hidden.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Lying, Light

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• Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with a pure heart.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Judging

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• Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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