In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe
Ayn Rand
Related Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost. PST ADELAJA SUNDAY the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE The Holy Spirit connecting with your spirit will begin to induce and stimulate your spirit to reveal... SUNDAY ADELAJA All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way. HENRY HON Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus... MATTHEW ARNOLD Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing... J.G. BALLARD You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life... TIM BURTON Dissatisfaction with the world in which we live and determination to realize one that shall be bette... GOLDSWORTHY LOWES DICKINSON Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life... TIM BURTON All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that ma... JAKOB BOHME She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Drive inner strength by overcoming the adversity with your fighting spirit. It is your fighting spir... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure ... JACQUELINE COCHRAN If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts... ADAM CLARKE I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political phi... ELIYAHU GOLDRATT Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. ANNE SULLIVAN If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another. ALAN COHEN Don't let them beat down your spirit and the spirit of your ideas go with reality and what seems nat... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Don't let them beat down your spirit and the spirit of your ideas go with reality and what seems nat... AULIQ-ICE The Passion of Ayn Rand ERIC STOLTZ The Passion of Ayn Rand HELEN MIRREN Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN There is always a solution to any problem. Find opportunities in any circumstance. Never become... LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In spite of how much the spirit of God comes to you, he will first drop into your spirit man a seed ... SUNDAY ADELAJA I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never... ALICE WALKER The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who be... SAUL D. ALINSKY Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER The Indians believe all things have spirit - even the hail that comes from the sky is spirit. If you... MICHAEL CIMINO Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. GORE VIDAL Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in hum... ARCHIBALD HILL “Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.” - Ayn Rand AYN RAND The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of... ANSEL ADAMS The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of ... ANSEL ADAMS Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness. JEFFREY FRY Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... You can rise to greater heights with determined spirit and hope. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will... GERMANY KENT Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing. PAUL DAVID WASHER Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, de... JIM BUTCHER Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a... LISA KLEYPAS I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it. KATHARINE MCPHEE If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position... ANDREW MELLON The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape. JANET TURPIN MYERS The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an ad... BERTRAND RUSSELL The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which th... ANDREW JACKSON With the Spirit and magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field. Wit... EZRA TAFT BENSON Move deep in your sensation, and you will realize the spirit in the body. Your life is possible only... ROSHAN SHARMA To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly i... VANNEVAR BUSH I have no doubt in my mind that we were able to make contact with the spirit of John Lennon. JOE POWER frThe Spirit comes gently and makes himself known by his fragrance. He is not felt as a burden for G... CYRIL OF JERUSALEM Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, o... FRANCINE RIVERS Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile ADELAIDE HASSE The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its mod... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ide... ROBERT GREENE The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experi... GORDON B. HINCKLEY I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today... NEIL PEART A little holiday spirit lives forever in everyone. Test your own holiday spirit. Give away all of it... RAY PALLA The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more pos... AUSTIN GROSSMAN Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is ... JOHN OWEN .מסכן, אתה כמו ספר ילדים בלי תמונות EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ I am so sad this effort has gotten to this place. I think that I came in this morning with certainly... ANNABETH SURBAUGH These young men, in other words, represented a variety of types, but one thing they had in common wa... RYū MURAKAMI You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spir... WOODROW WILSON Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictate... DON MIGUEL RUIZ The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which th... ANDREW JACKSON I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. CLARENCE THOMAS The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when th... BLACK ELK You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the re... EDMUND BURKE Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No othe... PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in thi... LYNN AUSTIN Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to... CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH What is of the nature of spirit and soul must be gleaned from facts belonging to the spirit and soul... RUDOLF STEINER If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing in... WILLIAM LAW In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS In the modern world and especially in the world of business, without a warrior spirit, it will be im... SUNDAY ADELAJA When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosit... RANDY NEUGEBAUER A frequent intercession with God, earnestly beseeching Him to forgive the sins of all mankind, to bl... WILLIAM LAW The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own an... KAREN KINGSTON She painted it because the farm was where she was from. You paint whatever comes from your spirit, a... MARTHA TRASK Man thought he had a human spirit. That is totally incorrect. Man is a human spirit which is enwrapp... L. RON HUBBARD I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mod... ALBERT EINSTEIN Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without te... MIYAMOTO MUSASHI As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongs... C. JOYBELL C. In the end, rational policy is always good. PAUL KEATING Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the coll... SOURCE UNKNOWN I sing, not because I'm happy, but because I'm in love with the world. ANTHONY T. HINCKS What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and s... CARL GUSTAV JUNG The whole point of the story of Cornelius and of the admission of the Gentiles lies in the fact that... ROLAND ALLEN Sometimes people appear in your life unexpectedly like a gift from the Universe. You didn’t even k... RIITTA KLINT
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