The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
BILL VAUGHANOn the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.
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By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole…. Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core.
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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
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And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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Middle age is when you realize that you’ll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
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