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• It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

  Rob Bell

  Enemy, Praying, Fortitude

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• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.55, North Atlantic Books

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• I’ve chosen my life — now I want to start living it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Life, Want, Eclipse

  "Eclipse". Book by Stephenie Meyer, August 7, 2007.

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• it is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets

  Mary E. Pearson

  Simple, Thinking, Voice

  Mary E. Pearson (2008). “A Room on Lorelei Street”, p.142, Macmillan

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• The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness. - pg. 152

  Brennan Manning

  Love, Passion, Heart

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.134, NavPress

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• It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.

  May Sarton

  Space, Trying, May

  May Sarton (1993). “A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry”, p.137, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• The next day, Greg is so large that he cannot even ride the car to school because he can't fit in the car. His parents believe this to have been caused by a food allergy and resolve to take him to the doctor later.

  R. L. Stine

  Believe, School, Doctors

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• You have to be nicer to me," I said. Again he laughed. "What? I'm the King of nice. What are you talking about?" "You have to be nicer to me or... or..." "Or what?" he said. Still Lars, still charming and jokey, but with a thread of fear. It snaked in and pierced my numbness and almost broke my resolve. Almost, but not quite. "Or I have ti break up with you." I whispered What was there more to say? Nothing. So I hung up.

  Lauren Myracle

  Kings, Nice, Numbness

  Lauren Myracle (2008). “Thirteen”, p.149, Penguin

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• We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Lying, Writing

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• How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

  Arthur Phillips

  Conditions, Stable

  Arthur Phillips (2009). “The Song Is You: A Novel”, p.210, Random House

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• No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.

  David O. McKay

  Jesus, Real, Teaching

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• My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave. Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moment sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day's nigh spent; 'tis gone careening into time forever. Not a tale's length past we lined our bowels with dinner, and already they growl for more. We are dying men, Ebenezer: i'faith, there's time for naught but bold resolves!

  John Barth

  Past, Men, Thinking

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• Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.

  Samuel Adams

  Perseverance, Rights, Suffering

  Essay in The Boston Gazette under the pseudonym "Candidus", October 14, 1771.

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• Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

  Heinz Pagels

  Science, Helping, Moral

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• In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Mean, Together, Needs

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• Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  Andrew Carnegie (2007). “The Empire of Business”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have kept other vineyards too long; you have trifled about the borders of religion too long. Will you now resolve to look better to your hearts? Will you hate and come out of the crowds of business and clamors of the world and retire yourselves more than you have done? Oh, that this day you would resolve upon it!

  John Flavel

  Hate, Heart, Long

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• There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.

  Virginia Clinton Kelley

  Baby, World, Spirit

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• One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential point to other minds. Words may have to be strained into a new sense, and scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words. On the other hand, a happy nomenclature has sometimes been more powerful than rigorous logic in allowing a new train of thought to be quickly and generally accepted.

  Arthur Schuster

  Powerful, Lying, Science

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• To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare, and incessant carnage: but the more enlarged view, while it regards individuals in their conjoint relations to the general benefit of their own species, and that of other species with which they are associated in the great family of Nature, resolves each apparent case of individual evil, into an example of subserviency to universal good.

  William Buckland

  Life, Nature, Science

  William Buckland (2003). “The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.112, Psychology Press

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• To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words but sustained and unified action.

  Prince Hassan bin Talal

  World, Action, Conflict

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• The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Motivational, Dream, Educational

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• I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

  Rajneesh

  Resolution, Restriction, Miscellaneous

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• When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Regret, Confused

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• All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air.

  Helen Hunt

  Prayer, Night, Air

  H.H. (Helen Hunt) (1887). “Helen Jackson's Poems”

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