"The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator."

-- Mary Astell

#Self Quotes #Soul Quotes #Affection Quotes

“I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country-all you do is kill millions of people”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Live truth instead of professing it.”
“The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal.... Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.”

Source : "Theory of the Immortal Social-Political Body". 1986.
“There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.”
“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”
“O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill, Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold me still. Back let them fall from me, my clamorous foes, Confusions multiplied; From crowding things of sense I flee, and Thee I hide. Until this tyranny be overpast, Thy hand will hold me fast; What though the tumult of the storm increase, Grant to Thy servant strength, O Lord, and bless with peace.”
“I believe in God, not because the Bible tells me that he is, but because my heart tells me so; and the same heart tells me we can only have His peace with us if we love Him and obey Him, and that we can only he happy when we each love our neighbour better than ourselves.”

Source : James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.41
“Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.”

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