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Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
NovalisNovalis Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
NovalisNovalis Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
NovalisNovalis A character is a completely fashioned will.
NovalisNovalis Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
NovalisNovalis The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
NovalisNovalis Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
NovalisNovalis Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
NovalisNovalis Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
NovalisNovalis The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
NovalisNovalis To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
NovalisNovalis Where children are, there is the golden age.
NovalisNovalis All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
NovalisNovalis Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
NovalisNovalis I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
NovalisNovalis Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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How strange that our hearts heal from the same thing that broke it -love.
Cailin HargreavesCailin Hargreaves The peak of intensity is numbness not emotionless.
Anamika GargAnamika Garg She is everything and nothing at all.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole She built her castle at rock bottom.
Harriet SelinaHarriet Selina Keep growing into yourself.
Sophia JoanSophia Joan They tell you to be grateful for what you have. But you are also allowed to be sad for what you have lost.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura what the sky is to a bird is like a dream for a dreamer.
Safna SulaimanSafna Sulaiman The Red Rose on my grave shows once I was in love.
Moses AlexanderMoses Alexander
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More on god
Don’t ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.
Myles MunroeMyles Munroe God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
George Washington CarverGeorge Washington Carver I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life.
Hildegard of BingenHildegard of Bingen The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross A heart-memory is better than a mere head-memory. Better to carry away a little of the love of Christ in our souls, than if we were able to repeat every word of every sermon we ever heard.
St Francis De SalesSt Francis De Sales Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
Ignatius of LoyolaIgnatius of Loyola For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.
Saint PeterSaint Peter Do you want to have God always in your mind? Be just as he made you to be. Do not go seeking another “you”.
Anthony of PaduaAnthony of Padua