Oborities Quotes & Sayings

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished. — Horace

Our experience taught us we were alone so we have to break through barriers of shame, fear, and habit to realize the time has come to find help. — Jeanne McElvaney

I suggested that he write from 11:00 to 1:00 every weekday. During that time, he was to write or do nothing. No email; no calls; no research; no clearing off a desk; no hanging out with Jack, my adorable, three-year-old, train-obsessed nephew. Write, or stare out the window. "Remember," I added, "working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination. You want to use your writing time for writing only. Nothing else, including no other kinds of work. — Gretchen Rubin

But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the lifetime of one man, and thereby to make a period of time fruitless in the progress of mankind toward improvement, thus working to the disadvantage of posterity - that is absolutely forbidden. For himself (and only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in what he ought to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind. — Immanuel Kant

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false. — John Owen