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“When you focus so much on the word, you tend to neglect the realm of silence.”

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David Steindl-Rast is a German-born monk and writer known for his research on gratitude. His works explore the role of gratitude in personal and spiritual life, as well as how it can promote the well-being of individuals and societies. more

“Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.”

People Trying Ideas Soul Helping Lord Sun Path Easier Shining Guides Abandon Midnight Preference Our Lord Without God Sun Shines Coerce Bright Ideas

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.”

Country Games Gone Communist Cricket

Author:Woodrow Wyatt

“If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.”

Ifs Done Running Danger Enthusiasm Enthusiastic Things Done

Author:Woodrow Wyatt

“When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.”

Looks Forgiving Chosen Generosity You Choose Lenses

Book:The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide

Source: The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide

“There is no scientific way to validate anything that I or you can say about the soul because science cannot validate the existence of the soul any more that it can prove the existence of God.”

Way Soul Existence Prove Existence Of God

Author:Gary Zukav

“It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.”

People World Way Self Common Poet Members Scientist Painter Limitation Renewal

Author:Gary Zukav

“Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until one day you feel you've lost something but you're not sure what it is. It's like smiling at a pretty girl and she calls you 'sir.' It just happens.”

Knows Feels Doe Happens Girl Lost Memories Magic One Day Happenings Not Sure Pretty Girl

Book:Boy's Life

Source: Boy's Life

“I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.”

Littles Kids Pieces Strange Loud Piano Little Kid

Author:Lady Gaga

“We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the towns we have built are not permanent; the earth itself is a passing train.”

Earth Sea Mountain Built Roots Towns Train Rose Plant Passing Passings Permanent Burned Mist Trembling Prehistoric

Book:Boy's Life

Source: Boy's Life

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