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“The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.”

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Taisen Deshimaru

Taisen Deshimaru was a significant Japanese Zen master, born on November 29, 1914, and passed away in 1982. His life and contributions had a profound impact in the Zen community. more

“Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.”

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Author:Sherman Glenn Finesilver

“Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.”

Fall Rose Recovery Defined

Author:Adrienne Rich

“A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.”

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Author:Dan Millman

“But still, like air, I'll rise”

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Book:And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems

Source: And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems

“Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.”

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Book:The Christian in society

Source: The Christian in society

“On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.”

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Author:Tertullian

“Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.”

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Author:Anne Bradstreet

“The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand of God, who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.”

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Book:Brother Lawrence: The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life, Being Conversations and Letters of Nicholas Herman of Lorraine (Brother Lawrence).

Source: Brother Lawrence: The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life, Being Conversations and Letters of Nicholas Herman of Lorraine (Brother Lawrence).

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