"My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself."

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Vera Farmiga

#Father Quotes #Holiness Quotes #Importance Quotes

“Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.”
“Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.”

Source : James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir”, p.162
“But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.”
“Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.”
“The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.”
“The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.”
“When it comes to your life's work, you can't take yourself too seriously. Even Jesus had an occasional joke with the boys, take walking on water, for instance - but there's a time and place for fun. Jesus never faltered when it came time to tip over the money stalls or to take his hard walk up the mountain.”
“Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, ***** for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.”

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