from dust thou art to dust returneth was not spoken of the soul
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from dust thou art to dust returneth was not spoken of the soul
That's wonderfull Mia.Quote:
Originally Posted by mia wallace
“Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.”
Love is a committment with a beginning and has no end.
'' Don't deprive of somebody's hope,it may be the last thing he owns''
"Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken..."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"In their most inner thoughts, even the most devout Christians know that there is something illegitimate about belief. Underneath their profession of faith is a sleeping giant of doubt . . . In my experience, the best way to conquer doubt is to yield to it." - Dan Barker, pastor-turned-atheistQuote:
Originally Posted by mono
"Those who think they believe in God but not without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, not in God himself." - Madeleine L'Engle
"He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue."
--Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673), French dramatist. Célimène, in Le Misanthrope, act 2, sc. 5.
"an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Gandhi (best quote ever)
"let not your left hand know what your right hand does" - Jesus (that doesn't work when taken out of context, but it illustrates a spectacular ideal.)
sorry if these are misworded - i don't have the books with me
"What a misfortune to be a woman! and yet the worst misfortune of all for a woman is not to understand that she is one." KierkegaardQuote:
Originally Posted by genoveva
The difficulty is not to die for a friend, but to find a friend worth dying for." Anonymous
Just read this one (am reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand righ tnow):
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
I have read this poem so many times, I have nearly committed it to memory. The second stanza, I also find amazing . . .Quote:
Originally Posted by ElizabethSewall
Lovely, lovely. :nod:Quote:
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
I can’t think what made me think of this but it seems very suitable somehow.
“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
Jonathan Swift
Poor is he who denies knowledge -James Johnson
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Unnamable
That's going up in the 'rebel corner' at work tomorrow! This one already has pride of place:
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw