I Quotes
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“It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.”
“It requires handwork to discover and unearth the potential within you”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“It requires honesty to see whether you still harbor grievances, whether there is someone in your life you have not completely forgiven, an "enemy." If you do, become aware of the grievance both on the level of thought as well as emotion, that is to say, be aware of the thoughts that keep it alive, and feel the emotion that is the body's response to those thoughts. Don't try to let go of the grievance. Trying to let go, to forgive, does not work. Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place. The seeing is freeing.”
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.”
“It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.”
“It requires less skill to love than to be loved.”
“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”
“It requires more than mere genius to be an author.”
“It requires neither time nor money to be kind.”
Source: Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
“It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.”
“It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!”
“It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.”
Source: Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man
“It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.”
Source: History of woman suffrage
“It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.”
Source: Scientology, a New Slant on Life
“It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.”
Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“It requires some courage to break a taboo [around the high likelihood of climate-induced collapse, as opposed to mere climate disruption]. It requires some courage to make people aware of darkness that they had not seen before or had turned away from. Especially when that darkness is not in the changing climate and the institutions that have damaged our world, but is also within us. Because we have all participated in both the creation of this disaster and the ignoring of it. Or being satisfied with ineffectual action that provided us with a believable myth of being a good person. As such, climate chaos is an invitation to go deeper into self-reflection and learn about why we have participated in such destruction. From that inquiry we may find ways of living that avoid making matters worse. Bringing attention to the darkness around us, ahead of us and inside of us is essential if we are then to light candles of wisdom. People who are bringing attention to the darkness are also lighting candles of wisdom. Candles only shine within darkness. As more candles are lit, so we can see each other anew. We can connect with what is burning inside our hearts and live from that truth more fully than before.”
“It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.”
Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.”
Source: Security Analysis, Sixth Edition, Part V - Analysis of The Income Account. The Earnings Factor in Common-Stock Valuation
“It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.”
Source: The Moon and Sixpence
“It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777
“It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933
“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.”
“It requires undisrupted focus, discipline, hard work and self commitment to construct success from nothing. Of course is hard but is neither impossible.”
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
Source: A Preface to Morals
“It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.”
“It rest in you to live responsibly.”
“It rest on you to live responsibly.”
“It rests with every professor of the religion of Jesus to settle within himself to which of the two religions, that of Jesus or that of Paul, he will adhere.”
“It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.”
Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter
“It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.”
“It reveals that people are confusing." Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.”
Source: A Hero for WondLa
“It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute the latter I collected many proofs, but I do not publish them ... I would dare to publish my speculations if there were people men like you.”
“It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever unuttered and unutterable; it feeds that deep, ineradicable instinct within us of which all art is only the reverberated echo, that craving to express, through the medium of the senses, the spiritual and eternal realities which underlie them.”
“It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.”
Source: Talulla Rising
“It right to do the right things with the right people.”
“It ripens in perfection only in the glow of a midsummer’s sun; and the hotter the weather, the more delicious are its rich cooling juices. It is eminently suited to the season. When the weather is so hot that even eating is a labor, the peach is acceptable, for it melts in the mouth without exertion.
It is the Queen of Delicacies.”
Source: The Best American Food Writing 2022: A Curated Collection of Mouthwatering and Comforting Culinary Articles
“It rises again, the frenzied smoke
as the phoenix rises from the ashes
shadows of dreams on the hills
a melange of memories
She speaks in unheard words
poignant with meanings deep
another bird of silence caws
as the breeze swirls and spins
My grandmother told me stories
about the mountains and the lakes
I saw the rainbows of hope
swaying to the music
as the daffodils of joy to the rain
The opalescent sky looks melancholy
as the clouds of Alzheimer's hover her life
perhaps she has not forgotten everything
I hope the moon tells her about me
I keep searching for my footsteps now
smudged in the sands of time
like the proverbial breeze that drifts
but never gets to stay a while
Gazing at old photographs, I keep
the memories treasured and vaulted
a boulevard of thatched moments
a promenade of myriad stories!”
“It rises from the funeral pyre of rubble, ash, and scorched memories to stare Max in the eyeballs, stand right over him in his lonely bed and whisper a hissing, fire-branding warning in his dreams, ‘Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust…’ over and over again, so close to his face he can feel the heat emanating from the fiery lick of its tongue. Fireman is trying to tell him something he already knows, but Max doesn’t know it yet. Wake up, damn you! It’s staring you in the face…”
Source: Dead Ends
“It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.”
“It rolls the mid-most waters of the world, the Indian Ocean and Atlantic being just its arms.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.”
Source: Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements
“It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.”
“It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.”
“It ruffles me a bit, not being able to tell apart my best friend from my girlfriend from this distance. But then one of the figures dashes across the sandy trail and jumps into my arms and I'm reasonably sure it's Liv and not Perry.”
Source: Roar and Liv
“It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.”
“It's 10:00 a.m., time for the second round of baking of the day. After feeding the fire with chunks of maple, he loads the bread and pastries according to cooking time: first the fat country rounds, then long, skinny loaves dense with nuts and dried fruit, and finally a dozen purple crescent moons: raspberry croissants pocked with chunks of white chocolate.”
Source: Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
“It’s 100% easier to increase your time and freedom by eliminating the dumb things you do every day than to try to be 100% more productive doing more dumb things.”
“It's 1963: we're in the year of prophetic fulfillment. The last revival meeting is at hand, where the sons took up the cross of the fathers. White sons went forth to the dirt roads of Georgia and Alabama to prove to their fathers that the melting pot could still melt. "Negro" sons went forth to the Woolworths and Grants and Greyhounds of America to prove to their fathers that they could eat and sit and ride as well in the front as in the back, as well seated as standing.”
Source: Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
“It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this.”
Source: Strong Female Character