I Quotes
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“It is in our love for others that the end to suffering exists.”
Source: The light at the center of the universe
“it is in our minds that we live much of our life.”
Source: A Heritage and its History
“It is in our nature that if someone points out our fault, we immediately resist and justify ourselves and try to prove the other person wrong by advancing logic and reasons that support our beliefs. If we don't have reasons to support our faith, we avoid any discussion and even ignore the person, but we try to always hold on to our beliefs. The only way we can change our belief is when we ourselves realise our mistakes.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)”
“It is in our nature to draw ourselves into circumstances and decisions that will prove disadvantageous or damaging to us. Know your path forward.”
“It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.”
“It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.”
Source: Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World
“It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.”
“It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier.”
Source: Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
“It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul.”
“It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.”
Source: Platform
“It is in our sensuality, that our submerged dreams often make their way to the surface.”
“It is in our silence that we can hear the melody of nature around us.”
“It is in our toughest moments that we really discover who we are.”
Source: I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
“It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.”
“It is in part, I suppose, that the thought of marrying
anyone makes me wish to retreat to the nearest library and hide myself among the stacks; marriage has always struck me as a pointless business, at best a distraction from my work and at worst a very large distraction from my work coupled with a lifetime of tedious social obligations”
Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.”
Source: Playing and Reality
“It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.”
“It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.”
“It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.”
Source: Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude
“It is in rain and fresh flowers that I find the scent of life,
stronger than what pricey perfumes can offer.
It is in the quiet whispers of trees that I find my companionship, deeper than what this world can offer.
It is in the streaming of a river that I find myself at peace,
when this mind of mine is muddy inside.”
“It is in rain and fresh flowers that I find the scent of life, stronger than what the pricey perfumes can offer.
It is in the quiet whispers of trees that I find my companionship, deeper than what this world can offer.
It is in the streaming of a river that I find myself at peace, when this mind of mine is muddy inside.”
“It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.”
Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four
“It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight.”
“It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“It is in refusing to recognize that we worship something that we move from the worship of that thing to slavery to that thing.”
“It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.”
“It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.”
“It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.”
“It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.”
“It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.”
“It is in seeing ourselves whole that we can begin to see ways of working out our differences, of understanding our similarities and of finally forming the cohesive nation that can one day experience the 'domestic tranquility' so hoped for by the framers of the Constitution.”
“It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.”
“It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.”
“It is in small things that big things happen.”
“It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.”
“It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.”
Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition
“It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.”
Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
“It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.”
“It is in taking a great thought and wrapping the entirety of it in a handful of simple words that the rouge defenses of the heart are breeched and the soul falls to the light.”
“It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his country's subjection to England.”
“It is in that inner peace and stillness that things begin to happen, and it was in that peace and stillness that I began to hear God's voice.”
Source: God Spoke to Me
“It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.”
Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
“It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao, to Premier Chou, to the people of our two countries, and to the hope of our children that peace and harmony can be the legacy of our generation to theirs.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972
“It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.”
“It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.”
Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“It is in the acceptance of truth that real wisdom and peace come. It is in the acceptance of truth that real living begins. Conversely, avoidance of truth is the denial of life.”
Source: The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
“It is in the acknowledgement of one’s deepest fears that the seeds of healing are sown and in the embrace of hidden sorrows that true strength is found.”
Source: Runnin' No More
“It is in the act of admitting our weaknesses that we are showing our strength.”
“It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential.”