17320 Quotes & Sayings

While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story. — Gabourey Sidibe

Two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall
dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism. — William Ralph Inge

Maybe my viriety is due to bad absorption of vitamins. — Stephen Hawking

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time. — Hugh Leonard

Your soul may be trampled in times of troubles. But if your spirit is strong, you will survive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your two selves: Most people are not aware of the fact that they have two different selves. You have a mind and a spirit (consciousness), and though they seem like one thing, they are separate. The way to realize that this is true is to realize that something has to be listening to the thoughts created by your mind.

What is it that hears your thoughts?

There is the part of you that thinks and the part that hears the thoughts. The thinking part is your mind; the part that hears the thoughts is your spiritual-self. You do not actually hear thoughts through your ears, because your mind is already inside your head. The point is, your spiritual-self receives the things the mind creates in a similar way to hearing them.

Check it out: Just ask yourself, what is it that is hearing the thoughts you are thinking right now?

It is your spiritual-self, the same thing that receives all life. — Michael Smith

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church. — John Piper

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

In the book of life, the answers are not in the back! — Charles M. Schulz

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are. — Booker T. Washington

Although one curious thing that might sooner or later cross the woman's mind would be that she had paradoxically been practically as alone before all of this had happened as she was now, incidentally. Well, this being an autobiographical novel I can categorically verify that such a thing would sooner or later cross her mind, in fact. One manner of being alone simply being different from another manner of being alone, being all that she would finally decide that this came down to, as well. Which is to say that even when one's telephone still does function one can be as alone as when it does not. — David Markson

Focus away from ideas that get you nowhere and toward ideas that can change your life. — Robert A. Giacalone