Henry Ward Beecher on damage
Henry Ward Beecher170 quotes“If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.”
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher
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Thoughts on a tapestry. Colour or black and white. A brush, a pen, A flash of light. Ideas flowing soon, about to take flight.
Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
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R. H. SinR. H. Sin You don’t need an apology to get closure. The damage is your closure.
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Erma BombeckErma Bombeck Loving someone unconditionally is equivalent to unintentionally losing yourself in the game, and the damage you inflict on yourself goes unaffected by your lack of self-awareness and self-realization.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
Haruki MurakamiHaruki Murakami Two damaged people trying to heal each other is love.
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