I Quotes
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“In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.”
“In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.”
“In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.”
“In specific terms I don't think I could make any suggestions, but in general terms I believe that it is because Canadians have been under the good influences of their churches that they are a tolerant people, an understanding and patient people, so that there has been little backlash against the excesses which have happened over the decades in French and in English Canada which might turn either group off.”
“In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.”
Source: Salvation Crystal Clear
“In spiritual and shamanic traditions, every trial is seen as an opportunity for purification and learning. Stagnating in pain dissipates vital energy that could otherwise be channeled toward personal improvement and service to the community. These moments of pain become rites of passage toward a deeper understanding of our place in the universe.”
Source: Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho
“In spiritual direction, however, there has to be an ongoing awareness that anything can happen; that the Holy Spirit is already affecting the person; and that one must participate in this work through careful discernment and support. here again, it is necessary to walk the fierce path of free will and dependence. We must always claim the freedom we have been given; to do otherwise would devalue our humanity. But at the same time, we will increasingly recognize the extreme inadequacy of personal will and knowledge in figuring out what life is or how we should live it. As we grow in wisdom, we also grow in the realization of our utter dependence upon the Lord in all things. it seems to me, then, that in its purest human form spiritual direction is a journey towards more freely and deeply choosing to surrender to God.”
Source: Care of Mind/Care of Spirit: A Psychiatrist Explores Spirtual Direction
“In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control.”
“In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.”
“In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance.”
“In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.”
“In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna.”
“In spiritual matters we remain beginners.”
“In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.”
“In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.”
“In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Saviour is away.”
“In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours.”
“In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.”
“In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.”
“In spite of a heavy disguise, a few days' growth on my face, dark glasses, a beret and one of William's jackets that fitted me not at all, as I emerged from a hotel in Lecce, a young fisherman pointed me out to his friends and said "Lavrenche Olivaire." It was not all that amazing; if you're not known in Italy, you're not known anywhere.”
“In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.”
“In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.”
“In spite of all my aches and pains, and I've got plenty. Inside I go on feeling just a chit like Gina. Perhaps everyone does. The glass shows them how old they are and they just don't believe it. It seems only a few months ago that we were at Florence. Do you remember Fräulein Schweich and her boots?”
The two elderly women laughed together at events that had happened nearly half a century ago.”
Source: They Do It With Mirrors
“In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.”
“In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late.”
“In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.”
Source: Between Man and Man
“In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.”
“In spite of all that doctors know, and their studies never end, the best cure of all when spirits fall is a kind note from a friend.”
Source: Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)
“In spite of all that had happened between them, she remembered one simple truth. Every promise Pembroke had ever made to her, he kept.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.”
“In spite of all the cultural restrictions, in spite of marital or political difficulties, a strong woman continues to create and makes the world go round, such as Abigail Adams and Alexandra Bergson, Harriet Scott, and Emily Dickinson all did. History is full of women creators in the arts, many of whom created under oppressive circumstances.”
“In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“In spite of all the hate and unhappiness and ignorance in the world, some things were just good no matter how you looked at it.”
Source: Cottonwood Whispers
“In spite of all the paraphernalia for keeping things together, how haphazard life is, and the judgments of time.”
Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's canvases--beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.”
Source: The vampire Lestat
“In spite of all the skills that I do have, to relate to the normal world I have no applicable skills. I can speak Russian, I can speak French. I know about Chanel. Especially vintage Chanel. I know what Halston is. All of these things, but they can't really be applied to a nine-to-five.”
“In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him, but then I've never been a slave to good judgment.”
Source: Two For The Dough: A Stephanie Plum Novel
“In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.”
“In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail.”
“In spite of all the terrible things that happened to me, I did not allow Hitler to make me feel less than human. I had been raised well and I knew who I was. My strategy was not to allow myself to hate. I knew I could be consumed by such hate”
“In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.”
“In spite of all their kind some elements of worth
With difficulty persist here and there on earth.”
Source: Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry
“In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.”
“In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.”
“In spite of any indication to the contrary, you can never be disconnected from the invisible, irrevocable, ever-present connections of Love. You are loved. You are here for a purpose. Your life is unique, important, and irreplaceable.”
Source: Touched by Love
“in spite of anyone else's barriers
and limitations and boxes and stories…
i hope you let yourself dream.
and search. and discover. and grow.
and be many-layered, and curious, and unlimited…
and passionate and wild… and soft and vulnerable…
and have depth or lightness…
and be found or lost…
and be as many other things as you want to be.
and i hope you find a way to be unafraid and
unapologetic and undeterred as you do…
because other people’s barriers
and limitations and boxes and stories
are just that… theirs.”
“In spite of being a relatively poor country, Cuba is one of the most committed in deploying doctors to crisis zones. It sent more than 460 Cuban doctors and nurses to West Africa. In October, Germany sent medical supplies, and later that month a hundred additional U.S. troops arrived in Liberia, bringing the total to 565 to assist in the fight against the deadly disease. To understand the severity of the disease, a supply order was placed on October 15th for a 6-month supply of 80,000 body bags and 1 million protective suits. At that time it was reported that 223 health care workers had been infected with Ebola, and 103 of them had died in Liberia.”
“In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%).”
“In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.”