Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution
Teilhard de Chardin
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Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for ...
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, ...
WILLIAM LAW It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN These are moments of love and ecstasy. Deeply moving moments when we will fly! Fly together in the a...
AVIJEET DAS Love is energy of life.
ROBERT BROWNING It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ...
C. JOYBELL C. Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM There was something in her eyes! Her eyes were expressive and from the first day that they met, they...
AVIJEET DAS I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who beli...
C. JOYBELL C. I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Love is like energy. It can never be created nor destroyed...it is just always there. You just have ...
IAN PHILPOT (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
ANNIE DILLARD Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
MOHAMMED The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr
MUHAMMAD We don't fall in love with someone. We discover love in someone!
AVIJEET DAS Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT (Love is the puzzle that) can’t be solved. Catlike, it follows no rules but its own, and only it k...
CHRIS DEE Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning...
ABHIJIT NASKAR This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who...
CRISTIANE SERRUYA Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Phi...
WILLIAM LAW The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON A great future starts with what you can see
SOTONYE ANGA Si escuchas la canción Asleep, y piensas en esos días en los que hace un clima precioso que te hac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the ...
FRANZ KAFKA This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds—but more than anything, this g...
SETH ADAM SMITH The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth...
RENE DENFELD Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, ...
WILLIAM LAW If Love is not powerful , what else is .......!!!
BASIL C S We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Phi...
WILLIAM LAW I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER if you love someone,you did not think if it was right...all you know was you love the person so much...
VERONICA LAPPAY Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
BILLIE HOLIDAY All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
MORIHEI UESHIBA You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS No one can hope that men who have fought in silence for four years and are now fighting all day long...
ALBERT CAMUS The people are under arms tonight because they hope for justice for tomorrow, Some go about saying t...
ALBERT CAMUS Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, th...
ALBERT CAMUS There’s a reason for the word heartbeat not be called beat of heart. The perfect woman only needs ...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand exten...
CHRISTINA BALDWIN The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible...
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
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TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is t...
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experi...
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway
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TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed
TEILHARD DE CHARDIN The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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TEILHARD DE CHARDIN «Sarò nel programma di protezione testimoni,» disse Jack.
«Avrò un nome diverso, non so d...
JANE SEVILLE Riprendo a correre, a tutta velocità. Non ho più paura di nulla. Non ho più paura di nessuno. Non...
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~RAM CHANDER(RC) Le etichette possono essere riduttive. A volte bisogna smettere di pensare a genere e orientamento e...
JAY NORTHCOTE They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other...
PARUL WADHWA Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD There is not a national energy crisis, there is a tight reserve margin which we are addressing.
ALEC ERWIN If you believe Life is sacred, you must also believe unnecessary killing is sacrilege.
DONALD L. HICKS
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DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
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[Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
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ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters.
[Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error.
[Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
[Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
[Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
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[Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
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[Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
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MAURICE DE VLAMINCK Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
FRANS DE WAAL I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but t...
FRANS DE WAAL I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the deriva...
YVONNE DE CARLO I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
YVONNE DE CARLO I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
YVONNE DE CARLO Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
YVONNE DE CARLO I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become ...
YVONNE DE CARLO I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
YVONNE DE CARLO After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a prop...
YVONNE DE CARLO The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Co...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to d...
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the histo...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are v...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', tha...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festi...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
ROBERT DE NIRO Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN Ballyhoo is for your classic girl, who is fun and fearless. This is for the girl who is not afraid t...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actres...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and ha...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfri...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
INDIA DE BEAUFORT School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long p...
INDIA DE BEAUFORT I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I wa...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. W...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there'...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The less men think, the more they talk.
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU