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God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. Meister Eckhart
God Home Walk Gone Out Who
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. Michel de Montaigne
Marriage Desperate Birds Those Out Inside Sees Outside Cage Like Equally Get
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. Mortimer Adler
Love True Love Love Is Giving Other Pleasure Consists Exchange Never True Fair Return Without Due Owed Getting Utility Based Why Associations
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. Plato
Democracy Tyranny Out Arises Naturally
Silence is also conversation. Ramana Maharshi
Silence Conversation Also
Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed. Ramana Maharshi
God Time Prayer You Wait Will Long Long Time Drop Before Think Indeed Disappear Devotion Till Very Very Long Time Gradually Your Away Starting Desires
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. Soren Kierkegaard
Life Great Thoughts Nothing Else Paradox Paradoxes Embryo Only Great Souls Call Souls Passions Intellectual Intellectual Life Than Pathos Just Which Grandiose Really Who Exposed Thinker
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Sun Tzu
Enemy Win Fighting Hundred Battles Without Subdue Victories Skill
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory. Sun Tzu
People Victory Will Fall Situation Live Danger Strive Plunge Able Annihilation Deadly Survive Confront Them Then
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation. Swami Sivananda
Life Good Free Remove Others Everything Way Direct Direct Way Mentally Divine Always Selfless Salvation
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. Thomas Carlyle
Silence Fall Hundred Oak Unnoticed Echoes Forest Sown Acorn Breeze Whole
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle
Result Become Moral Temperate About Excellence Habit Doing Brave Just Acts
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. Aristotle
God Beast Live Society Unable Must He Himself Because Either Who Sufficient Need
The law is reason, free from passion. Aristotle
Law Passion Free Reason
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle
Mind Jobs Degrade Absorb Paid
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature Suffering Will Arbitrary Seems Never Another Inflicted Us Painful Chance
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. Baltasar Gracian
Day You Every Day People Show Off Every Must Some More No-One Over Talent Always Limits His Surprising Discovers Off Left Up Person Expectations Stop Little Show Who Each Each Day Novelty Ever Keeps
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
Happiness Love Love Is True Happiness True Perhaps Most Caution Forms Fatal
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. Bertrand Russell
Time Equality Men Everybody Admit Only Onward He Since Doctrine Equal Opinion Does America Inferiors Upwards Social Jefferson
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Blaise Pascal
God Faith Gift Latter Proof Human Different Former
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal
You Lose Nothing Hesitation He Without Exists Gain Then
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle. Confucius
Courage See Principle Want Right
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. Confucius
Good Words Will Difficult Find He Make Without His Modesty Speaks Who
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. David Hume
Best Corruption Worst Rise Gives Things
There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally. Deepak Chopra
Sad You Heart Joy Feeling Say System Immune Gut Gut Feeling Am Literally Bursting Your Speaking Molecules
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. Diogenes
Nature Too Sun Shines Polluted
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