A Quotes
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“A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare
“A true republic is the one that doesn’t ignore these cries of innocents. It must be ready to act and adapt to different circumstances of living.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“A true revelation is always followed by a revolution.”
“A true revolution is about making those who are comfortable with corruption, uncomfortable. It's about pointing your fingers in the right direction and with nothing but the truth, will come power. A power not to exploit the Liberian people. But an ability to restore liberty, justice, and prosperity for all.”
Source: Liberian Son
“A true revolution is about making those who are comfortable with corruption, uncomfortable. It's about pointing your fingers in the right direction and with nothing but the truth, will comes power. A power not to exploit the Liberian people. But an ability to restore liberty, justice, and prosperity for all.”
Source: Liberian Son
“A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.”
Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life’s roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: “This is not just.” It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: “This is not just.” The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.”
Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.”
Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny
“A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.”
“A true romance is not something that happens between the skins. It is something that burns our souls beautifully and leaves us craving to be destroyed even more.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“A true romantic will break the rules for the right reasons. He will not conform to the ideals bestowed upon him by society. Instead he will fight for a climate of freedom that allows him to pursue and obtain his heart's true yearning. He will appear incorrect in his upright form, but such perception only through the eyes of those travelling under the hypnotic notion of social paradigms. Do not judge he who is breaking the rules, rather try to understand his motivations. If his intent is pure then his fight is not in vain.”
“A true ruler does not rule others, he rules himself.”
“A true sage of insights. He always has extraordinary insights about life. He strives for extraordinary heights. Like an ancient scroll, his life unfolds before his eyes.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“A true sailor is one who finds love in every port.”
“A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.”
Source: Communion with God
“A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of It. in Three Partitions; With Their ... Medically, Historically Opened and Cut Up
“A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.”
“A true self-image will be based on how much you are living out your values.”
“A true sensual woman is intrinsically connected to her inner passion and adept at channeling that passion to drive every beauty, fashion and lifestyle choice she makes.”
“A true servant lives for a cause higher than normal life.”
“A true servant of God will never teach a false doctrine. He will never deny new revelation. He never will tell you that the canon of scripture is full, or that the New Testament is the last revelation ever intended to be given to man.”
Source: O. Pratt: A Series of Pamphlets
“A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.”
Source: The Glories of Mary (annotated)
“A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.”
“A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.”
“A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.”
Source: The Good Life
“A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.”
“A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.”
Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.”
“A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time, and that such ease is synonymous with transcending the apparent boundaries of the self.”
Source: Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
“A true spiritual seeker should exercise control all the time, throughout the day and night.”
Source: From Amma's Heart
“A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate.”
“A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.”
“A true spouse of Christ gives little thought to herself. A person who constantly thinks of himself is rarely at peace, nor is a person who has no control of his desires, who yearns for material things beyond his means. Whoever has more concern for his body than he has for his soul, who insists on his own will instead of God’s will, who is more anxious about time than he is about eternity, more conscious of the absence of comforts than he is about the presence of God, more anxious to be loved and pampered than he is to love and suffer, more interested in receiving favors and being consoled than he is in aiding his neighbor and comforting others—there is a person who seldom knows peace.”
Source: My Beloved: The Story of a Carmelite Nun
“A true statement needs no validation, even if the truth is not visible. Always speak rightly and seek no correction.”
“A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner”
“A true success is when you become a reason for a Smile on their face.”
Source: Zindagi Rewind
“A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, “Suicide is selfishness.” Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call it a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reasons: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one’s audience with one’s mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it—suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what’s selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching. The only selfishness lies in ruining strangers’ days by forcing ’em to witness a grotesqueness. So I’ll make a thick turban from several towels to muffle the shot and soak up the blood, and do it in the bathtub, so it shouldn’t stain any carpets. Last night I left a letter under the manager’s day-office door—he’ll find it at eight A.M. tomorrow—informing him of the change in my existential status, so with luck an innocent chambermaid will be spared an unpleasant surprise. See, I do think of the little people”
Source: Cloud Atlas
“A true survivor is someone who, after 12+ years of being schooled, remains independent in their thinking.”
“A true swarthi (interested in the Self) will become the absolute Self! This is considered paraartha (for the non-Self). A swarthi will attain the ‘Self’.”
“A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.”
“A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.”
“A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.”
“A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.”
“A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.”
Source: Success and Its Conditions
“A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.”
“A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.”