"He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it."

-- Leopold von Ranke

#Eye Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“I went up a pants size during my pregnancy.”
“The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.”
“I am all for the short and merry life.”

Source : Edward FitzGerald (1962). “Selected Works”
“Shabazz led chants of ‘death to Israel,’ ‘the white man is the devil,’ and ‘Jihad.’ He also said, ‘Kill every goddamn Zionist in Israel! Goddamn little babies, goddamn old ladies! Blow up Zionist supermarkets!’”
“...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.”
“To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.”
“Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.”
“Let love be your perfect weapon.”

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