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Author:Louise Hay

“There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their dishes, people are getting through the day, with songs that we may find insignificant. But their significance is affirmed by others. There’s always someone affirming the significance of a song by taking a woman into his arms or by getting through the night. That’s what dignifies the song. Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.”

People Humans May Night Song Wife Baby Arms Activity Findings Meaningful Significance Dishes Insignificant Washing Human Activity Affirming Meaningful Song

Author:Leonard Cohen

“The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing.”

Way May Book Law Stars Simple Intention Be You Rejoice Thelema

Book:The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1

Source: The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1

“Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.”

May Political Spirituality Social Church Institutions Pursuit Setting Settings Political Institutions

Author:D. Patrick Miller

“I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I could turn this peach tart into a plum tart, but if I'm following a recipe, I follow it exactly.”

Ifs May Turns Scientist Following Recipes Peaches Plums Tarts

Author:Ina Garten

“Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.”

May Food Eating Cooking Drinking Culinary Fewer Alcoholics Beverages

Author:Marian Burros

“When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences.”

People Men Trying May Seems Individual Speak Christ Lord Path Unique Understood Oneself Every Man Prophet Followers Righteous Biographies Exalted Humbling Personhood Humbling Experiences

Author:Criss Jami

“God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.”

Men Wells May Might Able Strong Subjects Judging Months Healthy Judgment Weak Murder Lifetime Patient Extremes Gods Will Chemicals Stable Imbalance Judge Me

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.”

Source: Killosophy

“To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.”

Mind Firsts Humans May Ideas Pain Process Accepting Failing Source Higher Findings Concepts Wide Opening Confusion Human Mind Splits Offensive Unseen Unpredictable Pretentious Intellectualism

Author:Criss Jami

“You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.”

Thinking Mind May Mean Long Ability Gone Goes On Losing Losing Your Mind

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.”

May Sound Pleasure Written Trouble Poet Blessed Manage Poetry Is Blessed Are Those

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy ('love of wisdom') is simply a tool depending on how one uses it, and in some cases, logically understanding the nature of God and existence.”

May Philosophy Use Understanding Existence Cases Atheism Tools Theology Bridges Philosophy Love

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand.”

Source: Killosophy

“It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, 'God, I just don't know anymore. If you're out there, I'm giving it all to you.' From there, after the surrender, he is allowing God himself, rather than theories, books, and documents, to take over and lead him into all truth.”

Ifs Knows Giving May Book Philosophy Hands Doubt Theory Healthy Good Things Deeper Surrender Theology Allowing Uncertain Documents Hands Up Giving It All

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.”

Men May Glorify

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.”

Ifs Wells May Stills Walks Generations Truth Is Shoes Painful Worn Worth It Terrain

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not.”

Ifs Believe May Mean Reality Imagination Greater Risk Havens Comfort Obvious Suits Zone Exploration Comfort Zone Parallels Risk It Suits You

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be 'the ignorance of hopelessness'.”

Source: Killosophy

“Those 'back burner' thoughts, the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet, may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.”

May Brain Manage Cooks Back Burner

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.”

People May Norm Seeming Sinfulness

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.”

Thinking Men Feels Mind Heart May Ability Accepting He Man Determine Nevertheless Intimidating

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.”

Source: Killosophy

“A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.”

May Ends Common Soldier Common Sense Heroic Feats Grenade Lack Of Common Sense

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.”

Wells May Individual Social Lines Well Being Territory Thinker Expressive Detrimental Free Thinkers

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.”

World May Found Dying Civilization Glory Remains Ancient One Time Mars Crumbling Ancient Civilizations Testifying

Author:P. E. Cleator

“The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it.”

Believe May Children Enough Understanding Circumstances Instinct Terror Ghost Ignorant Educated Former Latter Troublesome Just Believe

Book:The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers

Source: The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers

“Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.”

People May Easy Stuff Cutting Activity Digital Cheating Illegal

Author:G. Hannelius

“Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.”

May Play Culture Stars Player Hero Train Pops Traditional Hawaii Popular Culture Pop Stars Ukulele

Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in the course of my marching do not get sufficient strength and power (i.e. time) TO DESTROY AND RAZE THE TEMPLES OF THE INFIDELS that meet the eye on the way. You should appoint an orthodox inspector (darogha) who may afterwards DESTROY THEM AT LEISURE AND DIG UP THEIR FOUNDATIONS”

Men Way Should May Country Eye Courses House Strong Built Stones Foundation Sufficient Temples Iron Orthodox Leisure Infidel Inspectors Hatchet Maharashtra

Author:Aurangzeb

“I share what I know, so that others may grow!”

Knows May Grows Share

Book:The Ageless Adept: Perfect Health, Long Life and the Fountain of Youth

Source: The Ageless Adept: Perfect Health, Long Life and the Fountain of Youth

“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nautre's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.”

Way May Eye Care Behinds Happened Sea Minutes Scene Mountain Devil My Friends Wings Tranquility Eagles Summit Tents

Book:Last Places: A Journey in the North

Source: Last Places: A Journey in the North

“There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if I can see the world for the first time, and my place in it, independent of you, a whole vista of what may be. Even if it is not grand or inspiring, it is real and solid, unlike the fantasy I've built around you. I will do this. I will triumph over you.”

Ifs World Firsts May I Can Real Whole Fantasy Comfort Letting Go First Time Built Independent Clarity Curious Triumph Over You Agony Numbness Vistas

Author:Julie Berry

“You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.”

Ifs Men May Use Lying White Concerned Competition Call Me White Man

Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

“It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.”

Want May Speak Difficult Duty Morality And Love Neighbor Mediocrity Restraint

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.”

May Young Found Individual Nations Quality Mankind Dangerous Demand Degrees Jew Invention Exception Unusual Disgusting Stock Exchange

Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.”

May Causes Disease Constitution Victim Patient Laziness Infirmity Sufferers Physiological

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.”

May Play Moments Spirit Fall Leadership Lines Leader Gone Movement Occasions Instant That Moment Followers Aspire Columns Traitor

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.”

Should May Littles Done Might Too Much Effects Possibility Seeking Accomplished Hereafter Repose

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.”

World May Long Doe Has Beens Given Natural Danger Periods Findings Employment Occupation Retirement Retiring Indispensable Accustomed Given Up Calculating New Business

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.”

May Matter Sound Enemy Weapons Intention

Author:Charles de Lint

“A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.”

May Stills Body Elements Eternal

Author:Charles de Lint

“One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.”

Needs Mind May Long Stills Book Choices Praise Remains Library Wide Celebrate Interviews Companion Acquaintance Something Better Library Books

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.”

Source: A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters.

“My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were never produced out of nothing. The consequence is, that every part of me will serve to make something in the world; and this again will change into another part through an infinite succession of change. This constant method of alteration gave me my being, and my father before me, and so on to eternity backward: for I think I may speak thus, even though the world be confined within certain determinate periods.”

Source: The Meditations: Translated from the Greek

“Wherever a man lives, he may live well.”

Men Wells May Live Well

Book:The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.”

May Bones Skulls Burial Soho Skittles Skull And Bones Gravediggers

Book:Necropolis: London and Its Dead

Source: Necropolis: London and Its Dead

“Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation? [The Communion, which] used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers [now seems] hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep.”

“More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.”

Ifs Men May Self Character Hours Quality Influence Example Position He Man Masters Exercise Disregard

Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

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