“May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and gives but bad receipts for payment in the lower world. Ah, passers-by that stroll, travelers that come and go, all that I had, I placed on virtue, and lost the game!” WorldGivingMayEarthGamesLostVirtueOur LivesPureGoldTravelerPaymentComes And GoesCursedReceipts Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel
“I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.” BookWould BeDiesPassionCoursesWishHoursPerfectOur LivesAirPureBurningExcitementLazyChemistryOxygenDeliriumSluggish Author:M. Carey Thomas
“Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship between the life in us and observation of that life in Nature. This we find supremely well expressed by the ancient Egyptians. It is a knowledge of magic, pure and sane, which can lead rapidly toward the spiritual goal of our lives, owing to the fact that we can evoke, by means of the sympathy of analogues in our surroundings, the consciousness of the heart latent in us.” WellsHeartMeanFactsAbleSpiritualGoalConsciousnessOur LivesMagicPureAncientObjectivesObservationSaneSurroundingsEvokeLatentOwingAnalogueAncient Egyptian Author:R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
“Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.” SpiritOur LivesPureFleshAriseRepentanceEarnestMortification Author:John Calvin
“By all means, let us simplify the means of controlling time and the myriad details of our lives, but let us vigorously preserve our responsibility to direct our lives toward human accomplishment, rather than the pure accumulation of information.” HumansMeanResponsibilityOur LivesInformationPureDirectDetailsPreservesAccomplishmentAccumulationSimplify Book:Timesource Source: Timesource
“I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the way her parents met. Her father was, I think, in New York just walking by on his way home and looked into a store and saw the lady that became his wife. It was just pure luck. And she said that it once again reminds her of the role that luck and chance play in our life. I really believe that, too.” ThinkingWayBelieveSaidPlayHomeFatherParentChanceRolesSawsOur LivesWifeNew YorkWalkingMetsPureLuckStoresPostsAutobiographyPublishersWay Home Author:Owen Wilson
“About the only question that we would say and this is a big one in our lives that we would say you don't just use pure reason to decide the answer to is anything that affects your happiness, because then gut and reason answer very different questions. So gut tells you "How do I feel about this right now?"” FeelsDifferentReasonUseBigsAnswersOur LivesRight NowPureGuts Author:Sheena Iyengar