Retreated Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Pray as you can, not as you can't. — Johnny Appleseed

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life! — Stephen R. Covey

Greed is a way of avoiding making choices: if I have everything I don't have to choose what I want. And choosing what I want means giving up some pleasures for other pleasures. — Adam Phillips

This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read
that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much when He afflicts as when He prospers us; that there is no real happiness but in doing and suffering His will; and that this life is but a scene of probation through which we pass to the real life above. — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind. — Socrates

I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about. — Nancy Gibbs

Rascals, do you want to live forever? — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Don't be restricted to your comfort zone alone — Sunday Adelaja

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time. — Annie E. Clark

Success is total self-acceptance ... — Viktor E. Frankl

To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man's eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash — James Fitzjames Stephen

I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic' in connection with bands. But what does that mean? A baby crying after being pushed out of its mother's womb, now that's what I'd call authentic. — Sophie Hunger

The evolutionary impulse is towards disidentification from thinking and the arising of awareness or presence, but the gravitational pull of the old consciousness, or rather unconsciousness, is still quite heavy. It's been around for thousands of years. — Eckhart Tolle

Our uniquely human capacity for sorrow at the deaths of those who are strangers to us is built on an evolutionary substrate. Our own ways of mourning may be unique, but the human capacity to grieve deeply is something we share with other animals. — Scientific American Editors

The idea of making a fault a subject of study and not an object to be merely determined has been the most important step in the course of my methods of observation. If I have obtained some new results it is to this that I owe it. — Marcel Alexandre Bertrand