One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
BILL VAUGHANOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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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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The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
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If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.
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One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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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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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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