Substance Quotes - Page 19

• What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Opening, Penetrate

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• The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

  Laozi

  Flower, Taoism, Fruit

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• When asked Who I Am, the only answer possible is: I am the infinite, the vastness that is the substance of all things. I am no one and everyone, nothing and everything -- just as you are.

  Suzanne Segal

  Who I Am, Answers, Vastness

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• Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time.

  Paul Twitchell

  Space, Expression, Records

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• On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Hands, Two, Creative

  "Essays with a Purpose".

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• Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Temptation, Response

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• So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Art, Mean, Healing

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• Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Sick, Wells

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• The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Past, May, Waste

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• If your goals aren’t synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won’t matter much.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Heart, Goal, Inspire

  FaceBook post by Danielle LaPorte from Apr 27, 2012

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• What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

  E. V. Lucas

  Food, Cooking, Shadow

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• Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

  Dee Hock

  Past, Form, Clothings

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• Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Attitude, Hate, Shadow

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.

  Helen Fisher

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Earth

  "What if I never get over him (or her) - you asked Google, here's the answer" by Annalisa Barbieri, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2015.

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• All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

  Dennis McKenna

  Life, Food, Science

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• Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete--and these are substances not easily impressed.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Animal, Journey, Snow

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• The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Believe, Preparation, Eternity

  Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Works: Lectures on the Epistle to the Romans”, p.27

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• I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used any substances provided by him. Anything said to the contrary is a lie.

  Gio Gonzalez

  Lying, Drug, Kind

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• Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Victory, Wikipedia, Process

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• Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune system and heighten susceptibility to disease.

  Rod Parsley

  Gay, Disease, Aliens

  Rod Parsley (2005). “Silent No More”, p.74, Charisma Media

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• Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These three are one [thing], not one [Person], as it is said, 'I and my Father are One,' in respect of unity of substance not singularity of number.

  Tertullian

  Father, Son, Numbers

  Tertullian, Aeterna Press (2016). “Tertullian Collection [2 Books]”, p.62, Aeterna Press

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• The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

  Daniel Odier

  Awakening, Wonder, Capacity

  Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Two, Alcohol, Drug

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• Why do I do it? Because I enjoy its effects. You know, I - why does anybody use any mind-altering substance, you know, because they like the way it makes them feel.

  Mark Stepnoski

  Marijuana, Funny Weed, Mind

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• It is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simply because others use it for different purposes.

  Steven Gould

  Weed, Marijuana, People

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