"The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Self Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Fingers Quotes

“You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.”

Source : Anne Holm (1965). “North to freedom”
“a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.”
“Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.”
“I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put down his thoughts and feelings in order to produce something altogether out of the common; yet as soon as he sets to work he falls into a certain mannerism of style and common phraseology; his thoughts do not come spontaneously, and one might almost say that it is not the mind that directs the pen, but the pen leads the mind into common, empty artificiality.”

Source : Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult
“I'm actually very active.”

Source : "Actor RJ Mitte from Breaking Bad". "Ouch" with Mat Frazer and Liz Carr, www.bbc.co.uk. November 10, 2008.
“It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.”
“I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy Spirit can and will guide me in direct proportion to the time and effort I will expend to know and do the will of God. I must read the Bible to know God's will. At every point I will obey and do I will die to self. I will begin to ask God to put me in a service of constant circumstances where to live Christ I must die to self. I will be alive unto God. That I may learn to love Him with my heart, mind, soul, and body.”
“If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.”

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