"The secret of life is enjoying the passing of time."

Taylor, James on   

"The heaviest thing you can carry in this life is a grudge."

Unknown on grudge   

"The dominant religion in this country in this century is not Christianity, but romantic love. We celebrate it with a fervor once reserved for religious devotion: you are my everything, our love is perfect and eternal, etc. We expect romantic love to bring us the sort of trnascendental bliss that other cultures associate only with deap spiritual existence."

Leyland, Winston on   

"Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad? Job knows that God is the God of Good and Evil, light and darkness, harmony and discord."

Simmons, Philip on   

"Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity."

Jung, Carl on ambiguity   

"Patriotism means supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. "

Unknown on   

"Most of our suffering lies in retrospection or anticipation; pain itself is very brief."

Durant, William J. on suffering   

"Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking."

Lewis, William Mather on propaganda   

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

Lewis, William Mather on   

"There is more music in me singing than crimes against my soul. "

Barnwell, Ysaye on   

"Theology: There is a heaven, for ever, day by day/ The upward longing of my soul doth tell me so./ There is a hell, I'm quite as sure; for pray,/ If there were not, where would my neighbors go? --Paul Laurence Dunbar "

Dunbar, Paul Laurence on heaven   

"It's better to have loved and lost than to live with the psycho the rest of your life."

Unknown on lost   

"I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear Nascar racing suits, because if you look at the Nascar drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them." "

Ventura, Jesse on politicians   

"And all that believed were together, and had all things in common; 45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. "

The Bible on communism   

"When we're in the grasp of certain emotions such as fear, anger, or jealousy, our world becomes very small."

Salzburg, Susan on jealousy   

"When reason is against a man, he will soon turn against reason."

Hume, David on reason   

"Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding."

Hume, David on eloquence   

"When anger grips the mind, it dissipates the mind's repository of spiritual power."

Wallace, B. Alan on   

"What we attend to becomes our experienced reality, so if we attend to other's faults we will dwell in a world filled with disagreeable people."

Wallace, B. Allen on   

"There is no where you can go and be only with people who are like you. Give it up. -Bernice Johnson Reagon "

Reagon, Bernice Johnson on people   

"In order to tell the truth, there must be some detachment from one's immediate environment; from the opinions of neighbors; from ambition, money, power, fame, comfort, security, and ease."

Montgomery, Robert on   

"In order to love yourself, you must behave in ways that you admire."

Yalom, Irving on love   

"Humor is what occurs when we are told the truth more quickly zand more dcirectlythan we ar used to."

Saunders, George on   

"To speak when there is nothing to be said: this is imprudence. To be silent when there is something to be said: this is deception. To speak without paying attention to the expression on the person's face: this is called blindness. "

Milton, John on blindness   

"Don't believe everything you think."

Unknown on   

"Feelings are much slower learners than thought."

Dowrick, Stephanie on feelings
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"For those who have come to grow, the whole world is a garden. For those who have come to learn, the whole world is a university. For those who have come to know God, the whole world is a prayer mat. -"

Muhauyaddan, Gawa on   

"God created a flawed universe in order to give every creature a role in its resotration. "

Frankel, Este;;e on flaws   

"Happiness does not notice the passing of time."

Chinese Proverb on   

"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine."

Ballou, Hosea on zeal
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"The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives."

Bataille, Georges on neurosis   

"Good will should be taken in partial payment."

Unknown on good will   

"I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when not feeling it. I believe in God even when he is silent. "

Unknown on believe   

"For nonconformity, the world whips you with its displeasure."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on nonconformity   

"At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; at 45 they are caves in which we hide."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on convictions   

"He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one, that imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in that insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never."

Wolfe, Thomas on anger   

"Boredom becomes loneliness when you know what you're missing."

McWilliams, Peter on boredom   

"Be patient, heart, for there are paper stars and phantom dreams I still must chase."

Flavia on patience   

"I burnish bright the mirror of my heart until at last, reflected for my rapture, the Self's eternal beauty appears. "

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on self   

"Impossiblities recede as experience advances."

Unknown on experience