Quotes
Authors
Eliphas Levi
"All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?" --
Source : Eliphas Levi (2013). “The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag
Eliphas Levi
#Light Quotes
#Miracle Quotes
#Darkness Quotes
“When you meet people at dinner parties, you'll ask what they do and it might be a woman who'll say: "Oh I used to work but I'm only a housewife now." They'll put down what they've achieved, like raising kids. You want to say to people "well you're just a wonderful human, just because I have my gob on the telly and I've made some money, it doesn't make me successful or any better than you."”
“When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.”
“I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.”
“In God we trust, everybody else bring data to the table.”
“I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty.”
“Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!”
“Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live.”
“He measures our lives by how we love.”