“As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.” YearsBelieveMayLittlesPersonsI BelieveBitsNumbersDirectNasty Author:Meles Zenawi
“Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.” IfsKnowsGivingBelieveKindUseEarthLyingReligionChristianityKindnessSawsGoodnessBenefitsCapacityDirectCreatorProofTendernessLiving ThingsEndowment Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.” IfsThinkingBelieveLooksI BelieveFindingsDirectAimAriseContactContemplation Book:The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh Source: The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh
“Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?” PeopleBelieveLittlesLongImportantUseInspirationSpiritualDesireFaithBuildingDutyTasteUnderstoodGardenCrossesDirectVery GoodChristian InspirationalFranceSpiritual LifeBelieve In MeSpainCastles Author:Saint Francis de Sales
“I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.” ThinkingBelieveWould BeIndividualI BelieveRevolutionDirectSimplicitySimple LifeSimple LivingIndividual LifeLiving A Simple Life Book:Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks