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“How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.”

World Different Soul Passion Peace Conscience Absolutes Calm Gods Will Temptation Preserves Purity Righteousness Inseparable Resignation

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.”

Way Real Government Passion Opinion Danger Industry Difficulty Absolutes Scared Secure Imaginary Decay Commerce Calculations Avarice Spurs Obstinate

Author:David Hume

“Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.”

Passion Party Understood Thirds Absolutes Third Parties

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing like a Mass Effect guy hanging out with a Sailor Moon, and they're just having a great time. Nerds, we love what we love with a passion and sometimes it's an angry passion, and to see that all sort of bleed out and everybody just connect.”

Sometimes Guy Passion Seeing Effects Moon Mass Absolutes Angry Comic Hanging Out Nerd Sailor Great Times Comic Con Mass Effect

Author:Joss Whedon

“Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.”

Firsts Mean Desire Passion Steps Path Perfection Absolutes First Steps Worldly Possessing Renounce Worldly Things

Author:Eliphas Levi

“Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other.”

Desire Passion Absolutes Filled Driven Absence

Author:Jean Royer

“If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that sort of a world, because family involves values like affection, and sympathy, and passion, and types of pleasure that lead nowhere in a material sense.”

Ifs World Important Values Universe Passion Pleasure Materials Type Absolutes Affection Maintaining Deterrent Acquiring Things

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”

Turns Passion Doubt Madness Absolutes Cease Certainty Jealousy

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time. Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.”

“In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured aspect of a personal passion. Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first-hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools. Hence whilst the Absolute of the metaphysicians remains a diagram —impersonal and unattainable—the Absolute of the mystics is lovable, attainable, alive.”

Source: Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

“Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.”

Ifs Mind Looks Heart Happiness Form Passion Peace Walks Watches Practice Clear Conflict Gains Absolutes Misery Core Unhappiness Mastery Frame Of Mind

Author:Hugh Prather

“In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.”

Love Humans Passion Memories Animal Creation Ideals Absolutes Immortality Ephemeral Unimaginable

Author:George Santayana

“Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.”

Ifs Reality Hate Fall Passion Grows Growing Flower Regret Absolutes Attraction Weed Manifest Don't Hate Don't Regret Repulsion Attraction And Repulsion

Book:Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan

Source: Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Dōgen's Genjōkōan

“Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.”

“When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.”

Years Art School Young Artist Passion Teacher Heard Design Draws Romantic Absolutes Seven Driven Painter Romantic Love Seven Years Graphic Realist Graphic Design Art Teacher

Author:David Coverdale