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“The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.”

Humans Ideas Real Belief Growing Personality Higher Ideals Eternity Absolutes Raises Developing Thirst Superhuman Coherence

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed a thousand timesor fallen in the fightand everything would worthless seem,I have lived amidst eternity -Be grateful, my soul -My life was worth living.He who was pressed from all sidesbut remained victorious in spiritis welcomed into the choir of heroes.He who overcame the fettersgiving wings to his mindis entering into the golden age ofthe victorious.”

“I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.”

Giving Real Self Compassion Ideals Eternity Offering Samadhi Real Self Self Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.”

World Mean Whole Truth Form Quality Truth Is Ideals All Things Eternity Propositions Omniscience

Book:Character and Opinion in the United States

Source: Character and Opinion in the United States

“To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.”

Men World Inspirational Law Eternal Ideals Eternity Praise Patient Calm Permanent

Author:Honore de Balzac

“When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.”

Source: Self-culture: Physical, Intellectual, Moral, and Spiritual : a Course of Lectures

“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.”

Life Mean Joy Dies Energy Growth Mistake Mankind Exercise Eternal Ideals Eternity Constant Enjoyment Joy Of Life New Experiences Thelema Continual Growth

Author:Aleister Crowley

“If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.”

Ifs Years Wish Tree Flower Ideals Eternity Plant Lives Of Others Plant A Tree

Author:S. Truett Cathy

“Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!”

Ifs Giving Light Prayer Judging Perspective Praying Giving Up Weakness Ideals Eternity Guilt Charity Temptation Generosity Indifference Purity Misfortunes Not Giving Up Great Idea

Author:Pope John Paul II