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«If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.»
Author: Nelson DeMille
| About:
Humanity
| Keywords:
Act of, barbarism, first step, howled, howls, injustice, The Howling, unkindness
«I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.»
Author: Peter Hoeg
| About:
Solitude
| Keywords:
Act of, awareness, blessing, carrying, carrying out, mercy, The Church
«Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.»
Author: Peter Ustinov
| About:
Forgiveness,
Love
| Keywords:
act, Acts of Love, Act of, becomes, endless, forgiveness, habit, tender, tenders
«God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.»
Author: Richard Holloway
| About:
God
| Keywords:
Act of, act of God, disciplines, eagerly, feeble, filled, hunger, New Gods, offers, respond, searching, self control, thirst
«Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily...»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Children,
Learning,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
Act of, aware, conscious, esteem, importance, injury, of their own, requires, self-importance, self esteem, willingness
«Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
act, action, Act of, choose, choose up, desire, else, in that, limitation, reject, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, self, sense
«Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| Keywords:
act, acting out, Act of, act out, every, every last, execute, executes, executing, last, last out, though, THY, were
«Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Action,
Creativity
| Keywords:
Act of, Creation, destruction, first of all
«Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Creativity,
Destruction
| Keywords:
Act of, Creation, destruction
«I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.»
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