I Quotes
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“In moments of despair, do not forget to look back and appreciate your resilience. You have overcome many challenges, many struggles, and many fears. You have proven your strength, your courage, and your brilliance. You have earned your dignity, your encouragement, and your respect.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final.”
Source: On the contrary
“In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“In moments of great change we suffer, somehow hoping deep down that our emotions and our dramas can change the future or prevent it from happening. Future happens regardless.”
“In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is remembered long afterwards with the utmost fidelity, driven in, as it were, by the mental stress of the moment. It may be some quite irrelevant detail, like the pattern of a wallpaper, but it will never be forgotten.”
Source: The Mysterious Mr. Quin
“In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that i will come to no harm.”
Source: In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition
“In moments of helplessness, I always seem to travel north. I have a kind of boreal wanderlust, an urge towards the top of the world where the ice intrudes. In the cold, I find I can think straight; the air feels clean and uncluttered. I have faith in the practicality of the north, its ability to prepare and endure, the peaks and troughs of its seasons.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“In moments of pain, we seek revenge.”
“In moments of pleasure and pain, during a celebration or a state of calm, when love arrives or says goodbye, evolve with a dance.”
Source: The Book of Dance
“In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“In moments of profound need and suffering, God remains silent and distant. Veiling Himself in holiness and pretending to care, He offers no release when I make the real call for help or rest. This silence makes me see God as selfish, revealing the opposite of His claimed sanctity.
I don't really want to go to hell—matter of fact, this has never been my intention—but this thought really fucks with my head. This is the craziest thing I think about day in and day out.”
“In moments of pure creation, you disappear.”
“In moments of silence, when the world pauses around you, may you sense the quiet power of compassion that dwells within, like a still lake reflecting the beauty of the sky. Let this be a wellspring of peace, soothing the rough edges of your own sorrows and inviting you to meet the sorrows of others with the same gentle presence.”
“In moments of silence you hear the eloquence of life.”
“In moments of sorrow or when the heart breaks, allow dance to take away all the pain.”
“In moments of sorrow, sway, when searching for answers, sway, when broken is the heart, sway, and allow dance to take away all the pain.”
Source: The Book of Dance
“In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.”
Source: What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
“In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.”
Source: Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness
“In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly lit light of possibility, immerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.”
Source: The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
“In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.”
“In moments when I am fully connected to my heart; I really do love everyone”
Source: An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
“In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: "That must be nice."”
“In moments when the temptation arises to judge or to wish for someone to be different, may you remember that each person is a mirror, reflecting both the light and the shadows within ourselves. By accepting them as they are, you also accept yourself, with all your own imperfections and struggles. And in that acceptance, may you find a deep well of compassion, not only for others but for yourself, a compassion that brings healing and wholeness.”
“In moments when you feel that life is unbearably heavy, surrender yourself to the circumstances for a while! When life hits you hard and makes you fall down, take a rest on the ground for a while! Momentaneous non-resistance will give you time to gather your strength!”
“In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls.”
“In money matters no relationship counts; money hardens all hearts.”
Source: The Land of Cockayne: A Novel
“In Mongolia, when a dog dies, he is buried high in the hills so people cannot walk on his grave. The dog’s master whispers in the dog’s ear his wishes that the dog will return as a man in his next life. Then his tail is cut off and put beneath his head, and a piece of meat of fat is cut off and placed in his mouth to sustain his soul for its journey; before he is reincarnated, the dog’s soul is freed to travel the land, to run across the high desert plains for as long as it would like.
I learned that from a program on the National Geographic Channel, so I believe it is true. Not all dogs return as men, they say; only those who are ready.
I am ready.”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
“In Mongolian culture, Khutulun is remembered by the sport in which she so excelled. These days when Mongolian men wrestle, they wear a sort of long-sleeved vest that is open in the front to prove tp their opponents they don't have breasts. It's a tribute to the woman wrestler who was never defeated.”
Source: Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
“In monoculturalism, people become so engrossed with themselves and ignore the needs of others”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“In Monster's Ball I went nude, which was scary, but I took the chance and that's how I like to approach my career.”
“In montage's original form as photomontage, it is capable of striking effects and on occasion it can even become a powerful political weapon. Such effects arise from its technique of juxtaposing heterogeneous, unrelated pieces of reality torn from their context. A good photomontage has the same effect as a good joke.”
“In Montana summers, anything feels possible. Grassy green pastures stretch for miles with the yellow field of canola flowering in late June, contrasting the deep blue skies. Billowing gold castles of clouds tower overhead, subsiding late into the late before the shower of stars began to emerge. Spotted fawns nurse from their mothers while flights of hummingbirds dive and skitter thought the aspen groves in search of nectar. The summers, a rich bounty after having lasted the many months of winter, are magical but brief.”
Source: Stable: A Therapist and the Healing Nature of Horses
“In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is fun.”
“In Montana, a policeman will pull you over because he is lonely.”
“In Montana, they renamed a town after an all-time great, Joe Montana. Well, a town in Massachusetts changed their name to honor my guy Terry Bradshaw--Marblehead.”
“In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!”
“In Montreal, where I taught in 1970, I met many people. The only ones who said to me they were Canadians, were Jews. All the rest were Scotts, Irish, English, French, Swedes.”
“In Moon View, the air felt different, like hope was threaded into each breeze that rolled over the vineyards. For the first time in a long time, Sarah believed in new beginnings.”
Source: Love Chosen: Contemporary Clean Small Town Romance Moon View Series: Book 1 of 3
“In Moonlight
No
Soft sweet paw on my cheek
No
Fur curled under my chin
Just
A sad space left behind -
Gray cat gone away.
[Ellie's poem]”
Source: The Poet's Dog
“In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“In morals, as in physics, the stream cannot rise higher than its source. Christianity raises men from earth, for it comes from heaven; but human morality creeps, struts, or frets upon the earth's level, without wings to rise. The Knowledge School does not contemplate raising man above himself; it merely aims at disposing of his existing powers and tastes, as is most convenient, or is practicable under circumstances. It finds him, like the victims of the French Tyrant, doubled up in a cage in which he can neither lie, stand, sit, nor kneel, and its highest desire is to find an attitude in which his unrest may be least. Or it finds him like some musical instrument, of great power and compass, but imperfect; from its very structure some keys must ever be out of tune, and its object, when ambition is highest, is to throw the fault of its nature where least it will be observed. It leaves man where it found him—man, and not an Angel—a sinner, not a Saint; but it tries to make him look as much like what he is not as ever it can. The poor indulge in low pleasures; they use bad language, swear loudly and recklessly, laugh at coarse jests, and are rude and boorish. Sir Robert would open on them a wider range of thought and more intellectual objects, by teaching them science; but what warrant will he give us that, if his object could be achieved, what they would gain in decency they would not lose in natural humility and faith? If so, he has exchanged a gross fault for a more subtle one. "Temperance topics" stop drinking; let us suppose it; but will much be gained, if those who give up spirits take to opium? Naturam expellas furcâ, tamen usque recurret, is at least a heathen truth, and universities and libraries which recur to heathenism may reclaim it from the heathen for their motto.”
Source: The Tamworth Reading Room. Letters on an Address Delivered by Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P. on the Establishment of a Reading Room at Tamworth. by Catholicus [i.E. J. H. Newman], Etc.
“In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.”
Source: The company she keeps
“In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.”
“In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity.”
“In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.”
Source: The Life of Jesus
“In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“In more advanced countries, such as the Czech Republic and Estonia, state socialism led to a steadily increasing lag behind neighbouring countries such as Austria and Finland.”
Source: Socialist Planning
“In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines for curing dyspepsia shows that people are suffering from this disease. In this country we know that there are so many kinds of pills and medicines used. We even have those in India now. These things show that not only in America but in all the countries of the world we have to recourse to artificial means for necessary nutrients because people are not aware of right rules of diet. It is better to follow the right rules of diet in the beginning in order to avoid any kind of artificial medicines later on.”
“In more day-to-day restaurants, things have undergone a seismic change towards informality and sharing, which has been years in the making. Nowadays, people don't want just one dish; they want to order lots of things and they want to do it in fun places, places that give them an experience. The experience that a restaurant needs to offer is no longer just based around the food.”