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God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. Bede Griffiths
Life God Me Knowledge Made My Life Own Nothingness Everything Out Easter See Brought My Own Could Had Knees Longer Been Acknowledge Centre Therefore Reborn
The fool wonders, the wise man asks. Benjamin Disraeli
Wise Man Wise Man Fool Wonders Ask
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole. Bernard Law Montgomery
Success Veterans Day Fight Battle Will Picture Before Fighting Every Soldier Must He Know How His Fits Goes Influence Little Whole Larger
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. Bertrand Russell
Living Else Possessions More More Than Anything Prevents Nobly Freely Than Anything Anything Else Us Preoccupation
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. Bertrand Russell
Democracy Man Blame People Get Process Which Choose
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. Bertrand Russell
Life Man Animal My Life Evidence All My Life Has-Been Rational Could Support Said Been Which Searching
It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them. Boris Johnson
Work Hard Work Promises Easy Make Them Hard Keep
However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love. Charles Spurgeon
Love Faith Heart Grace Lose Our Weak Small Shall Share Written Names Still However His Nor May Little Poor Jesus
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. Clement Freud
You Smoking Drinking Live Resolve Give Seems Longer Up Just Loving Actually
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. David Storey
Friendship True Friendship Allowance True Make Another Essence Little
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. Diane Abbott
You Say Indefensible Hypocritical Sounds Self-Serving Anything Defend
It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are. Emma Watson
Love Good You Feel Good Love Yourself Yourself Right Person Fall About Feel Like Until Also Cliche Learnt How Sounds Person Going Really Right
Adventure is not outside man; it is within. George Eliot
Man Outside Adventure Within
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. George Orwell
Equality Wealth Revolution Manners Brought Advance Reform Human Ever Nearer
We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it. George Osborne
Hatred Unity Must See Spirit Purpose Division Condemn Wherever Bring
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. Gertrude Jekyll
Time Will Beauty Young Summer Months Say Sign Promise About Perfect Fade Remind Fresh June Fulfillment Ever Earlier
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. James Allen
Today Thoughts You Tomorrow Will Brought Take Where Your
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. James Allen
Happiness Health Man Happy Result Prosperity Healthy Harmonious Rightly Adjustment Outer He Prosperous Until His Conditioned Surroundings Being Inner
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth. James Allen
Truth Man Hide Walk Made Tries Brought Highway Known Surface His Errors Unfit Endure Cannot Shortcomings Them Who
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love. John Donne
Love God Me Sake Hold Your Tongue
News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. Lord Northcliffe
News Rest Somebody Somewhere Suppress Advertising Wants
Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us. Marcus Buckingham
Stress Too Much Too Taking Feel Because Overwhelmed Get Little Us Much Really Many Strengthens
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. Mary Wollstonecraft
Justice Charity World Wanting
I'm continually inspired by nature, and the rainbow is one of nature's greatest optical phenomenons. The sighting of a rainbow never fails to bring a smile to people's faces. They signify optimism and positivity: with them comes the sunshine after the rain. Matthew Williamson
Smile Nature Rain People Sunshine Positivity Signify Faces Inspired Never Fails Greatest Continually Optical Optimism After Them Rainbow Bring
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. Neil Gaiman
People Building Tool More Allowing Empathy Individuals Than Us Groups Function
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Sooner Insult Than Forgotten Much Injury
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