"We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour."

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Source : Peter Damian (2013). “Spiritual Precepts”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

Peter Damian

#Attachment Quotes #Grace Quotes #Soul Quotes

“The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.”
“Cal," I whisper into her sleep, "if you go, you know what? You'll break my liver." I want to pretend that it's a joke, that she will wake up and laugh with me, throwing her head back the way she did last night, bit this time the words are true . . . she will break my liver, break my heart, kill everything inside alive inside me.”
“There is no quick easy way to the body you want... commit yourself now to your workout and get started.”
“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”
“In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?”

Source : "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
“Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.”
“I don't think that within a certain amount of time we can get rid of all nuclear weapons. But I do believe that, step by step, we could get others to join us. I call it going up the mountain. We can get to the top eventually, but we have to get to base camp first. Right now, we are in the valley. So we have a long way to go, but maybe our children or our grandchildren will see the top of the mountain.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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