The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
#quotes #robert-edison-fulton #stories

I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. ~Halle Berry
#quotes #halle-berry #search

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
#quotes #pema-chodron #love #inspiration

Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. ~Isabel Allende
#quotes #isabel-allende #life #society #war

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
#proverbs #zen-proverbs #buddhism

Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
#quotes #frederick-lenz #buddhism

Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
#quotes #philip-pullman #life #trust

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ~Albert Schweitzer
#quotes #albert-schweitzer #nature #environment

A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. ~James Madison
#quotes #james-madison #communication #free-speech

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do. ~Simon Sinek
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out. ~Jewish Proverb
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I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia. ~Jason Aldean
#quotes #jason-aldean #jeans #georgia

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ~Japanese Proverb
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
#quotes #cyrus-the-great #humanity #freedom

I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life. ~Alan Ball
#quotes #alan-ball #nature #life #heart

All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
#quotes #leona-lewis #friendship #childhood

The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. ~Osmanli Proverb
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The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent. ~Thomas E. Sniegoski
#quotes #thomas-e-sniegoski #silence

When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food; you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study. ~Henry B. Eyring
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~Matthew Arnold
#quotes #matthew-arnold

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
#proverbs #german-proverbs #wisdom #speaking #hearing