Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral
George Eliot
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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruit...
GEORGE ELIOT As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.
QUARIUS As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.
QUARIUS The world cannot promise you Heaven and truly take you there!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise
FRANCIS QUARLES The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
VAN WYCK BROOKS If someone wants to give you money, whatever the source, you should take it. Every religious-histori...
ANTAL SZERB From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
SAMUEL BUTLER This ‘Akram science’ does not scorn worldly interaction in the slightest. While living absolutel...
DADA BHAGWAN Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sou...
GEORGE ELIOT If you have no feelings about worldly things, they are all Buddhism; if you have feelings about Budd...
ZEN PROVERB It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.
GEORGE ELIOT Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in...
BUDDHA GOTAMA Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in ...
BUDDHA Learn, O saints! From what has been said, to sit loose to all your worldly comforts; and stand ready...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD When is 'our' worldly interaction considered good? It is from the moment 'we' have become saiyamit (...
DADA BHAGWAN It is Vitaraag vignan [the Spiritual Science of the Enlightened Ones] to look at gain, and to see lo...
DADA BHAGWAN Universal peace at a worldly cost; why not co-exist, forget all flaws, and keep growing
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. The worldly life means a puzzle of ‘wrong beliefs’.
DADA BHAGWAN The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure.
DADA BHAGWAN To run the worldly life, Egoism is not required. To bind [karma] for the next life, Egoism is requir...
DADA BHAGWAN In appearance, the worldly life looks attractive, but once you enter into it, you can never become f...
DADA BHAGWAN Worldly love is limited. Divine love is infinite.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The gentleman's name was Mr Worldly-Wise-Man.
JOHN BUNYAN Defrauded by Maya and worldly affairs, the weepers weep. They weep for the sake of worldly affairs, ...
GURU NANAK The moment your vision fixes [on men/women], the worldly life arises. This world is not worth seeing...
DADA BHAGWAN Whatever you do in your worldly life, is all worldly vision. Until the line of demarcation (between ...
DADA BHAGWAN Absence of worldly misery - that is called eternal bliss.
DADA BHAGWAN Saiyam parinaam (A resultant state that is free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorren...
DADA BHAGWAN Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach fille...
R. VENNING Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach fill...
R. VENNING Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach fille...
RABBI NACHMAN To reside in the place which makes you forget worldly life, and to move away from the place that ent...
DADA BHAGWAN On what basis is the entire worldly life in existence? It is due to conflicts.
DADA BHAGWAN That's definitely a homeless car. All his worldly goods are in there.
STEVE ROBERTS Worldly success and riches do not always bring happiness to a person
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is something urbane, stylish, and worldly about owning a cocktail shaker.
ROGER STONE Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit ev...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Remember, you are as dispensable as the most indispensable king of kings, the mighty lord of silly w...
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are inf...
DAVID BRAINERD You are distracted by thoughts of Maya and worldly attachment.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB That which cures all worldly miseries, is called ‘Scientific’ Knowledge.
DADA BHAGWAN Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.
MOHAMMED Is worth for a man to lose his soul, and gain worldly wealth?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Worldly relationships are not true [are not real]; it is a ‘business arrangement’.
DADA BHAGWAN Worldly life is awesome than spiritual life but think of eternity!
тαмιℓιαηρσηηυ I like her as a friend because she's intelligent, worldly and knows how to laugh at herself. I appre...
CINDY MCCLELLAND Why the obsession with worldly possessions ? When it's your time to go, they have to stay behind, so...
ALEX MORRITT If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy.
THOMAS WATSON Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the cen...
EZRA TAFT BENSON We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that w...
CRISS JAMI Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it c...
DANTE ALIGHIERI All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Worldly riches lead to the temptation to satisfy the desires of the flesh
SUNDAY ADELAJA There aren’t any ‘relative’ (worldly) things that is worth inviting. So what is worth inviting...
DADA BHAGWAN And there is still the more occasion for such an alarm, because worldly-mindedness so easily and cra...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD *You are not yet in the Emerald Dream. First, you must remove your earthly shell...* the voice in hi...
RICHARD A. KNAAK This our worldly life is an activity of Nirvana itself; not the slightest distinction exists between...
HOUSTON SMITH QUOTING THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES A society that lives by worldly principles is slowly moving towards a global crisis in all areas
SUNDAY ADELAJA The puzzle that is created by seeing the ‘relative’ is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would n...
DADA BHAGWAN The men's tanned faces, the faces of the women, bright with cosmetics, all suddenly appeared similar...
ANNA KAVAN People lose their powers (siddhi) by nagging; therefore know ‘as it is’. Know all these relation...
DADA BHAGWAN When there is not a trace of worldly love that is called ‘absolute ultimate love’ [paramarth pre...
DADA BHAGWAN “If you cannot carry a worldly cross of morality, then you won’t bear a heavenly cross of spirit...
DR HITESH C SHETH Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper.
CAROL ADAMS An Atheist wouldn't believe in the word's of Jesus Christ because of the worldly Christian.
LAURA E. BRUSSEAU Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual disc...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA One who weeps for the sake of worldly objects, O Baba, weeps totally in vain.
GURU NANAK The fruit of the intent of serving others (sevabhaav) is worldly happiness, and the fruit of the int...
DADA BHAGWAN Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely...
MITT ROMNEY Where indeed is the happiness in this worldly life? These are illusory beliefs. That is why ‘we’...
DADA BHAGWAN Gnani’s [The enlightened one’s] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the ...
DADA BHAGWAN As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took t...
ADAM CLARKE I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Worldly influences, feminine details and cleansing colors of spring will encourage women to discover...
MARLA SHAVIN We can say that one has remained [correctly] in worldly interaction if one has ‘adjusted everywher...
DADA BHAGWAN As long as one is involved in worldly interactions, there is pleasure of the mind; and after knowing...
DADA BHAGWAN Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so...
CHARLES SPURGEON The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood." Dakpo to Shan
ELIOT PATTISON The Lord is simply saying, "Worldly interactions should be conducted in such a way that it does not ...
DADA BHAGWAN What is the greatest benefit in the world? The association with good people. Those who are considere...
DADA BHAGWAN I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occa...
HOWARD JACOBSON So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worl...
THOMAS HOOKER Focusing on worldly achievements and acceptance has never been the way to true happiness, and an obs...
PAMELA H. HANSEN To seek first,simply means to first find that thing you are willing to be your best at,then all othe...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur...
LAURENCE STERNE As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultima...
DADA BHAGWAN Welles was an astute and worldly man about everything but his art. He couldn't afford to be otherwis...
PETER BOGDANOVICH Night and day, he is engrossed in worldly affairs, and even in his dreams, he finds no peace.
GURU GOBIND SINGH May you be blessed with that benediction which transcends worldly happiness, and may scholars show y...
ATHARVA VEDA We have actually contrived to invent a new kind of hypocrite. The old hypocrite, Tartuffe or Pecksni...
G.K. CHESTERTON I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend ...
JOHN WOOLMAN In the voyage of your worldly existence, the sails at which your life float upon, are tethered by th...
WILL BARNES I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Mari...
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone's funeral.
J. LINCOLN FENN He scored a worldly on the first day at Villa that we talked about all season. Richie got another at...
ANDY BOOTH The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So th...
DADA BHAGWAN If your singular aim for Liberation is strong, you will certainly attain that path. One who speaks o...
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GEORGE ELIOT The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is...
GEORGE ELIOT Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
GEORGE ELIOT Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fow...
GEORGE ELIOT The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our eg...
GEORGE ELIOT In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of...
GEORGE ELIOT Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.
GEORGE ELIOT Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
GEORGE ELIOT More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us
GEORGE ELIOT Hear Everything and judge for yourself
GEORGE ELIOT Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.
GEORGE ELIOT Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while...
GEORGE ELIOT Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh th...
GEORGE ELIOT There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere...
GEORGE ELIOT He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
GEORGE ELIOT A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoug...
GEORGE ELIOT Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity
GEORGE ELIOT