Roots Quotes - Page 39

• We get up in the morning feeling tired. Sometimes we feel good, sometimes bad, but we go through it with feeling. That's the root to the truth, that's where everything starts

  Drew Bundini Brown

  Morning, Tired, Feel Good

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• Complaining is never powerful because at the root of a complaint is powerlessness

  Dennis Prager

  Powerful, Complaining, Complaints

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• I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

  May Sarton

  Letting Go, Pain, Grief

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• Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God
  manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of
  the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and
  the leaf.

  Rumi

  Heart, Tree, Secret

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• Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, People, Culture

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• A child is the root of the heart.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Children, Heart

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• Conscience is the root of all true courage.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Courage, Conscience, Courage And Leadership

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to pairing, test-first, incremental design, continuous integration and so on because they support the values.

  Kent Beck

  Honesty, Responsibility, Practice

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• Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of "diary," to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.

  Anne Frank

  Notebook, Girl, Real

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.13, GENERAL PRESS

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• The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.

  Sheila Bender

  Distance, Writing, Journey

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• Attachment is the root cause of all misery. Possessiveness is nourishment for the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, Ego, Causes

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• Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery.

  Rajneesh

  Distance, Attachment, Mind

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• There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Soul, Genius

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate”, p.254

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• When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.

  Walter Hilton

  Desire, Sin

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• Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief.

  Leon Brown

  Believe, Belief, Calm

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• Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Needs, Consolation

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

  Alan Watts

  Anxiety, Strange, Trouble

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• To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

  Bell Hooks

  Inspiring, Reality, Imagination

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.110, Routledge

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• To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Lying, Moving, Fearless

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• Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more frequent as people age. It is a way of selecting and preparing foods based on science that can help people achieve and maintain optimum health over their lifetime.

  Andrew Weil

  People, Age, Disease

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• I know for me, going back the person I've bad-mouthed or lied to is absolutely humiliating! But isn't it interesting that "humiliating" has the same root word as "humility"? Part of humility is taking responsibility for my sin and asking forgiveness even when it doesn't feel good. God wants to heal and restore your relationships, but it's not easy.

  Chip Ingram

  Humility, Responsibility, Interesting

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• At the root of everything that we’re trying to accomplish is the belief that America has a mission. We are a nation of freedom, living under God, believing all citizens must have the opportunity to grow, create wealth, and build a better life for those who follow. If we live up to those moral values, we can keep the American dream alive for our children and our grandchildren, and America will remain mankind’s best hope.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Children, Believe

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• Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity - its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self.

  Tobias Wolff

  Teaching, Pride, Boys

  Tobias Wolff (2004). “Old School”, p.193, Vintage

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• It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

  Bram Stoker

  Evil, Selfishness, Way

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.125, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• A root, a stem, a leaf, some means of capturing sunlight and air and making food - in sum, a plant. The green substance of this earth, the chlorophyll, is all summed up in the plants. Without them we perish, all of us who are flesh and blood.

  Hal Borland

  Mean, Air, Blood

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