"Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God."

-- Richard B. Garnett

#Praying Quotes #Praying To God Quotes

“Success on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside.”
“I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I never look at naive faces. I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.”
“My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.”

Source : "Interview: Ahmet Zappa" by Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.
“Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.”
“Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Broadview Press
“There are moments of oneness with the Beloved, absolutely ecstasy and bliss. That is nothingness. And this nothingness loves you, responds to you, fulfills you utterly and yet there is nothing there. You flow out like a river without diminishing. This is the great mystical experience, the great ecstasy.”
“The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.”
“Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'”

Source : "When I Was 17: Katie Leclerc". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2012.

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