"A coward cannot have any prayer answered."

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Nichiren

#Prayer Quotes #Coward Quotes #Answered Prayers Quotes

“Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.”
“The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teaching were removed.”
“Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive.”
“One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.”
“The evil of infatuation is illustrated by the drunkard.”
“The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.”

Source : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
“If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.”

Source : "The Power of Six". Book by Pittacus Lore, 2011.
“...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass...”

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