"The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances."

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Source : Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.18, University of Pennsylvania Press

Florence Nightingale

#Heaven Quotes #Kingdoms Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“Ah! devout though I may be, I am no less a man!”
“I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.”
“I used to care about how I looked. Now I donâ€™t care as much. Maybe itâ€™s because Iâ€™m so handsome.”

Source : James Franco (2013). “Actors Anonymous”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known.”
“I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.”

Source : "This Week", abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2011.
“Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this power of self addition and re-adaptation, in greater degree than any other religion that the world has even seen, we believe it to be the one immortal faith.”

Source : Sister Nivedita (1915). “Religion and Dharma”
“There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.”

Source : Tony Horwitz (2010). “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War”, p.151, Vintage
“First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.”

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