Faith Quotes - Page 140

At what point is normal natural?

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What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?

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A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.

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The people’s hero does not only have to be someone in possession of the scepter of power. It can be anyone capable of giving unity, prosperity, security, peace and a sense of worthiness to his people. Such a figure gets elevated to the status of a revered hero with the human touch if he imparts a sense of oneness on a multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-religious group; especially a diverse people who have been fighting one another for years and centuries...

My patria vera or true fatherland is the place that enriches my soul.

a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.

It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.

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Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.

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He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

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A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.

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...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest...

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

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...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man’s world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

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A writer needs a partner who can act as fuel to his artistic mind, yet has the great ability to sober him up and help him be in sync with the non-artistic part of his soul.

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Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their personal feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters they have weaved. And in a curious way, without them really knowing it, writers are the sum total of the characters they created in their heads or in their writings. Yes, My Dear Tania; writers are capable of reflecting their characters, even though most of them are determined to be just like your ordinary guy next door.

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We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.

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When somebody you love dies, a phase of life’s innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.

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Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.

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In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.

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…a writer, like most artists, needs a partner who can act as the fuel to his artistic mind and soul, yet has the great ability to sober him up and help him be in sync with the non-artistic part of his soul.

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In today’s world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.

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Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having.

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We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.

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Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.

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In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.

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Life is full of intriguing souls that you cannot penetrate… An uncomfortable percentage of those anguished and impregnable souls also have suffering hearts that are further tormented by a deluded mind. They will hurt out of an impulse, and then live their lives after that without the slightest remorse.

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Avoid people who hurt from an impulse. I mean people who have this tendency to relish their capacity to hurt the good souls of this world, and who after hurting, wake up the next day without a trace of despondent brooding, and then move on with life never thinking that they should show some remorse or try to repent.

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In your selflessness pursuit of things higher than yourself, you appear selfish or inconsiderate to those who truly love you and who have cared deeply about you from the first day you came into their lives.

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There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.

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Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.

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Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother of the earth, but never shut your imagination off from those desires that distinguish you from the ordinary. Never allow yourself to be sapped of that extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.

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Isn’t reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?

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A man can’t talk of true happiness if he has never known true love—the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.

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The true leaders of our time, the legends of this world or the movers of the movers are the towering figures that are blessed with beautiful minds, receptive ears and directing voices. They are the ones we should emulate in life.

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Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.

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Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.

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When faced with difficulties, a humble, understanding, appreciative and selfless person finds it easy to win a friend. On the other hand, a temperamental, egoistic, condensing, self-absorbed, self-conceited and narrow-minded person who lacks the basic sense of humility easily loses friends when in distress.

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Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about.

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There are people who bring joy to our lives, but who fail to make us happy. They are the people for the moment. Never rely on their love because it is not sustainable. Their love is alike a comet that illuminates the sky, but then fades away because it lacks the sustainable energy of the sun.

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We need the wisdom to accept the fact that this world abounds with issues we cannot solve; and we need to part ways with those people, ideas and things that are a vexation to the soul.

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The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.

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Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.

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Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others.

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Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.

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When singers, actors or artists touch on sorrow, they are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows. The job of the singer, actor or artists ,in general, is to make us comfortable with our feelings or emotions―be it pain, hurt, anger, hatred, sadness, pleasure, love, cheerfulness or joy.

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Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures of their days, the types who give much artistic expression to the world, but who are lonely in their overcrowded worlds of love.

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We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.

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With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.

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Never allow yourself to be sapped of your extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.

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... People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned by evolution and civilization.

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Most of the truly kind people of this world show some measure of discomfort when offered kindness. Their gratitude stems not only from their understanding of the depth of the force of kindness, but also from their conviction that kindness should not be taken for granted.

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So, you see; you have the soul of a missionary, the heart of a revolutionary and the mind of a reformer. But what are you to yourself and the family and friends who will always be there for you?

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Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their own feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters they weave.

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Some honest people think it is better to know the ways of the devil without being evil.

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…our recollections bring out our joyful smiles, but hardly make us chortle or guffaw; our recollections often leave imprints on our faces that show our regrets, but they hardly produce sounds that echo the depth of those regrets.

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The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul.

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I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don’t know or haven’t made the effort to understand.

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When we tend to be too hard on those we love, we erode the softness of our souls in the process, taking out the humanity within us that is the nucleus of our goodness, even if our actions are for their own sake.

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Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.

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