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Being cool, is not trying to be cool.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Those who say they "sleep like a baby" haven't got one.
Topic: Babies
Author: A New Mother
Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932 Now what ought to have been the attitude of thoughtful Christians towards ecclesiastical authority, resulting from our Lord's whole attitude towards it? I think that the Catholic Church ought to have maintained and used ecclesiastical and sacerdotal authority, but that its maintenance and its use ought to have been accompanied with a continual fear. Because they had before them this fact, that however divinely authoritative, however securely resting on a basis of legitimate and genuine inspiration, yet the ecclesiastical authority of the Old Covenant, by no process of sudden revolution, but simply by a process of gradual development, was capable of becoming something so utterly alien in spirit from what it was intended to be, that when the Christ came, to prepare for whom and to welcome whom was the one reason for which it existed, it did in fact reject Him utterly.
Author: Charles Gore
It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.
Topic: Society
Author: Rollo May
He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest.
Topic: Kindness
Author: Phaedrus
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions.
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
Topic: Art
I 'll tickle your catastrophe. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The best thing you can do is get good at being you.
A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
Topic: Advice
Author: Cyril James
To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
Author: John Bach
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood, Fear God. Honour the king.
Topic: God
Author: Bible
Good, better, best. Never rest Until good be better And better best.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Mother Goose
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
Topic: Existence
He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.
Topic: Help
For they conquer who believe they can.
Topic: Confidence
Author: John Dryden
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Topic: Love
Author: Oscar Wilde
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
Topic: Instinct
Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. .
Topic: Humanity
Author: Bible