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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. Meister Eckhart
Needs Pure Detachment Would One Thing Would-Be He Who Serene Thing
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. Meister Eckhart
Man Outward Hinge Still Door Swinging Inner
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. Meister Eckhart
Work Great Will Puny Never Outward Inward
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Michael Ende
Life Time Great Take For Granted Thought Think Though About Rates Mystery Seldom Take Never Shared Most Known Quite Holds Which Commonplace Us Granted Each Twice Second
We can change the world if we change ourselves. We just need to get hold of the old patterns of thinking and dealing with things and start listening to our inner voices and trusting our own superpowers. Nina Hagen
Change World Listening Old Own Thinking Change The World Our Ourselves Superpowers Voices Dealing Trusting Get Just Hold Patterns Things Start Inner Need
There is no love which does not become help. Paul Tillich
Love Become No Love Does Which Help
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. Pope Benedict XVI
Death War Abortion Diversity Penalty Moral Moral Issues About Weight Catholics Opinion Waging Issues Death Penalty Same May Legitimate Regard Euthanasia Even Among Applying
God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion. Pope Benedict XVI
Love God Change Words Unity Trinity Directed He Himself Does Always His Communion Works Ever
Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight. Pope Benedict XVI
God Justice Mercy Tremble Sight Toward Makes His Moves While Us
I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit. Pope Benedict XVI
Way Say Possess We Cannot Ourselves Would Spirit Give No-One He Simply Render Effective Effective Way Close Cannot Which Personally Holy Means Transmit Holy Spirit
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. Rainer Maria Rilke
Good Solitude Difficult Solitary Must Something More Us Reason
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. Rainer Maria Rilke
Everything Something Perhaps Terrible Being Wants Us Help Helpless Deepest
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. Rainer Maria Rilke
Work Great You Reality World Will Feelings Believe Strongly More Part Taking Greatest Go Cultivate Forth Your Belief
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play. Richard Strauss
Beautiful Most Beautiful Difficult Voice Most Instrument Human Human Voice Play
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all. Thomas a Kempis
You Assured Would Pardon Knew
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly. Thomas a Kempis
Obey Ruler Willingly Only He Safe Learned Who
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. Thomas a Kempis
Faith Intelligence Destroy Must Follow Never Precede
At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done. Thomas a Kempis
Day Judgment Shall Read Done Asked
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves. Werner Heisenberg
Nature Science Natural Ourselves Part Simply Between Does Explain Natural Science Describe
Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability. Werner Heisenberg
Word Every Range Seem Only Clear Concept Limited May
I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control. Q'orianka Kilcher
Time Justice Youth Remember Important Control Think Society I Think Circumstances Systems Mentors Had Simply Supporters Beyond Most Because Within Around Them Juvenile Us Who Youths Right
If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution. Adolf Hitler
Today Revolution Revolutionary Against Stand Here
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. Adam Weishaupt
Government Nature Man Worth Gone He Fallen His Tarnished Man Lives Lives
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice. Adam Weishaupt
Great Clouds Will Understanding Sun Out Object Superstition Attaining Which Held Prejudice Means Reason Illumination Enlightening Association
I love to travel, but hate to arrive. Albert Einstein
Love Travel Hate Arrive
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. Albert Einstein
Sometimes Nothing Most Gets Pays Things
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