I Quotes
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“It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.”
Source: Complete Works
“It is only your dreams that will keep you alive.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“It is only your habitual late riser who takes in the full flavor of Nature at those rare intervals when he gets up to go afishing. He brings virginal emotions and unsatiated eyes to the sparkling freshness of earth and stream and sky.”
Source: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters
“It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way.”
“It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one's own, to be used! Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it.”
“It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.”
“It is opportunity that makes the thief.”
“It is opposition that makes us productive.”
“It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.”
Source: The Straight Mind: And Other Essays
“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
Source: The works of ... Edmund Burke
“It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.”
Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo
“It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.”
Source: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
“It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.”
“It
is our ability to have an insight into people that
gives us the power to predict the future.”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“It is our ability to love all creations, including animals, that make us conscience human beings.”
“It is our action that determines the viability of our dream.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons”
“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.”
“It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.”
“It is our American tradition to come together in times of tragedy. This is how we grow as a people and as a nation.”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“It is our argument that a sufficiently low price can turn a security of mediocre quality into a sound investment opportunity - provided that the buyer is informed and experienced and he practices adequate diversification. For, if the price is low enough to create a substantial margin of safety, the security thereby meets our criterion of investment.”
“It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.”
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”
“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.”
“It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.”
“It is our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.”
“It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.”
“It is our belief and our practice that in order to rebel and struggle, we need neither leaders, nor caudillos, nor messiahs, nor saviors. To struggle, we only need a little bit of disgrace, a good amount of dignity and a lot of organization. The rest is either useful for the collective or it isn’t,” reads the last communiqué.”
“It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities.”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
“It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.”
“It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.”
Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious
“It is our brush with the wild nature that drives us not to limit our conversations to humans, not to limit our most splendid movements to dance floors, nor our ears only to music made by human-made in struments, nor our eyes to “taught” beauty, nor our bodies to ap proved sensations, nor our minds to those things we all agree upon already. All these stories present the knife of insight, the flame of the passionate life, the breath to speak what one knows, the courage to stand what one sees without looking away, the fragrance of the wild soul.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.”
“It is our business to go as we are impelled.”
Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays
“It is our business to proffer solution to the problem of the society.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“It is our business to restore the earth back to God through the principles of the Kingdom.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.”
“It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.”
“It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
“It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.”
“It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.”
Source: A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life
“It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.”
“It is our confidence in the sovereign grace of God that gives us any hope of success in missions.”
“It is our contemporary culture’s tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise that life ought to be without pain, we make suffering something to be avoided at all cost. We consider the equation between evil and suffering so self-evident that we make avoiding suffering the equal of fighting evil. No wonder we are the most narcotized generation ever to inhabit the earth, searching for ever more effective addictive patterns to anaesthetize our existence.”
Source: The Living Gospel
“It is our continuing love for our children that makes us want them to become all they can be, and their continuing love for us that helps them accept healthy discipline--from us and eventually from themselves.”
“It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints”