"It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others."

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Source : St. John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross”, p.93, ICS Publications

John of the Cross

#Looks Quotes #Deeds Quotes #Silent Quotes

“Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.”

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“When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as is nearly always done without regard to the circumstances of the man who lies sick; he should not remain standing while he considers what he ought to do, as though the fate of a human being were a mere trifle; rather let him condescend to sit down for awhile.”

Source : Bernardino Ramazzini (1983). “Diseases of workers”
“Well, I never been to HeavenBut I been to OklahomaWell, they tell me I was born thereBut I really don't rememberIn Oklahoma, not ArizonaWhat does it matter, what does it matter?”
“Never feel guilty. Don't hold yourself back by guilt or fear. No other species in the entire world deals with guilt. Guilt is a bizarre emotion that makes you feel bad about decisions that you make.”

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“If you are all open in your heart, you are clean. If you are all open in your self, you are naive.”
“I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a right beacuse of some seeemingly insignificant yet cosmically crucial choice I've made, about a girl or a kiss or a date or a job or which Starbucks I went into...something.”
“Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.”
“We must constantly remain in a state of prayer; it is not something we do for just a few minutes now and again, or on certain occasions when we are especially in need. It is extremely important that God can speak to us all the time. This makes it much easier to seek the kingdom of heaven at all times.”

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