The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things.
OLE HALLESBYTo one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
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Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
ZELDA FITZGERALD -
From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
EDMUND SPENSER -
God is working on your problem. Stay calm. Stay sweet. Stay out of fear and keep on keeping on.
JOYCE MEYER -
All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
RAMAKRISHNA -
One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.
DAVE CHAPPELLE -
I think it’s hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change.
BEN H. WINTERS -
Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.
NELSON MANDELA -
I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn’t know much about living.
ELTON JOHN -
You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!
BEN MIKAELSEN -
For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
ERIC HOFFER -
I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
AGNES VARDA -
Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.
BRIAN ENO -
Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.
RAY BRADBURY -
It is the time to be responsible and stay at home, it is also perfect to enjoy that time with your loved ones that you cannot always have.
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