As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.
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Related You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will f... JAMES ALLEN You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will f... JAMES LANE ALLEN So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but w... CHRISTIAN D. LARSON His vision is impaired, and he will never be self-sufficient, MATT BINGHAM As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know heal... PYTHAGORAS Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural in... ERNST FISCHER For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his... MEIR KAHANE He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will n... ANWAR SADAT If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surel... GREGORY BATESON Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the nex... VIKTOR E. FRANKL I will love you when your hair turns gray, and I'll still love you if you gain a little weight. The ... MUSIQ SOULCHILD I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in ... JADA PINKETT SMITH Our vision for the airport is that it will remain primarily a general aviation facility with some co... MARK MCFARLAND It does bring new hope. Change always brings a new vision that will be stronger. There's still far t... LINDA EPPS As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may ha... DADA BHAGWAN And he will be expecting exactly the same of his squad. DAVID TUTTLE The Internet will continue to be valuable so long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transfer... FRED EHRSAM Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT He'll never change. He thinks he's invincible. I feel sorry for his girlfriend because he will alway... LAUREN ALCORN There are a lot of men of the same age in the same situation, so there will always be encounters to ... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING As long as you have good intentions, you respect yourself, and wish the good to others as much as yo... REEM AL OLABY As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know hea... PYTHAGORAS As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart. G.I. GURDJIEFF Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late.... SHIRLEY MACLAINE For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not? VERA NAZARIAN As Leaders We Must First Have A Vision But Having The Vision Isn't Enough, We Must Share The Vision ... GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE I believe his work in Black Psychology will influence future generations. His contribution to buildi... CHARLES HENRY As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of. NINA HAGEN Words will always be the words, the world will change. MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for... GEORGE GURDJIEFF It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for... GURDJIEFF No matter how bad you feel, God never sees you as a hopeless person. He may see you as a sinner who ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR As far as Sharon is concerned, his death or disappearance will not change anything. The difference b... ABDEL HALIM KHADDAM The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers w... JUDY BLUME Garfield's vision was ahead of its time. He saw the potential of citation searching for researchers,... HENRY SMALL How to change the world: • spread positivity • bring people up instead of dragging the... GERMANY KENT If human hearts allowed God to rule as He rules the universe, His kingdom would come and His will wo... DAVID L. HATTON Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Two reasons why many will never be Great;We dare not dream about greatness & We possess no long term... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The time has come for every Christian to change his position, to change the dimensions of his vision SUNDAY ADELAJA If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the... MIKHAIL GORBACHEV People will doubt your VISION for obvious reasons. However, the worse thing that can happen to any m... OSCAR BIMPONG There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who ... ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who... ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we ha... MIKHAIL BAKUNIN This is a very difficult situation for a young, brave man to go through. Our thoughts are with the e... BRIAN BURKE The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live accordin... BILLY SUNDAY When the Senate returns they will consider a number of options to change the system and better enfor... RICH CHRISMER Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be l... ARIEL LEVY Understand that change is constant. Whether you like it or not, your friends will change, your envir... ADNAN BAHATTI What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ... CATHERINE CROWE The man of the future will be young or he will not be. RéGIS DEBRAY Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and o... ALICE MEYNELL That young man will either be killed by you or he will spend the rest of his life in prison in a cou... DAVID BAUGH The competency of people you mobilize to work with will determine the output you will receive. As a ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, i... ERICH FROMM As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, i... ERICH FROMM The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will no... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Then as it was, then again it will be, and though the course will change sometimes, rivers always re... LED ZEPPELIN The sudden death of the leading man will cause change, making another man leader. Soon, but too late... NOSTRADAMUS My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his orat... DAVID HAREWOOD Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot b... GEORGE GURDJIEFF Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot b... GURDJIEFF as long as we continue to earnestly implement the government's macroeconomic control policies and pe... ZHENG JINGPING Be not discourage when others are unable to see the heights of your vision, God will placed you on H... CARL HENEGAN Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the ... HOMER If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change. GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never cha... KAREN CLODFELDER Given that I don’t know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a ... SHARON WEIL And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And ... OSCAR WILDE INSCRIPTION ON TOMBSTONE Bitcoin's value is the same: It will remain as long as it is the most efficient mechanism for tr... FRED EHRSAM As long as the big banks are allowed to remain big, their political leverage over Washington will re... ROBERT REICH A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be... AYN RAND What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Such a blessing when we work under the direction of the holy spirit, you just never know when he wil... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE CD is going to be with the organization for a long time. He will be a great adviser. He will remain ... LESLIE ALEXANDER There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by ... ERNEST GAINES Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will ... GOETHE A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for ha... GEORGE GURDJIEFF A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for ... GEORGE GURDJIEFF I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that... BILLY RAY CYRUS He doesn't know this now, but in the years to come he will, again and again, test Harold's claims of... HANYA YANAGIHARA Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become wh... RALPH WALDO EMERSON As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opin... JAMES MADISON Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. LEO BUSCAGLIA Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. LEO F. BUSCAGLIA I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake... TIBERIUS The nature of Nature is change. SHARON WEIL No matter how bad you feel, God never sees you as a reckless person. He may see you as a sinner who ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his... JOSEPH MORRELL DODGE What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his... JOSEPH M. 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CHESTERTON Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed... G.K. CHESTERTON I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that ... G.K. CHESTERTON How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. G.K. CHESTERTON The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens... G.K. CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu... G.K. CHESTERTON A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should ... G.K. CHESTERTON A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A mode... G.K. CHESTERTON These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own. G.K. CHESTERTON There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. G.K. CHESTERTON Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, b... G.K. CHESTERTON There is a limit to human charity," said Lady Outram, trembling all over. "There is," sai... G.K. CHESTERTON He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of c... G.K. CHESTERTON Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being ... G.K. CHESTERTON We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But wha... G.K. CHESTERTON Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly, G.K. CHESTERTON There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions. G.K. CHESTERTON We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practica... G.K. CHESTERTON He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha... G.K. CHESTERTON If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. G.K. CHESTERTON The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautifu... G.K. CHESTERTON I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G.K. CHESTERTON My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperat... G.K. CHESTERTON The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. G.K. CHESTERTON Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but th... G.K. CHESTERTON the things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any men. Ordinary things... G.K. CHESTERTON The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it ... G.K. CHESTERTON