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Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
Faith | Incredulity | Nothing | Understanding |
Orderliness - One doesn't have to begin to learn how to be silent, but one has to begin with learning to function in an orderly, clear, unconfused way. Every cerebral movement has to be clear, precise and accurate. Accuracy, precision, is the breath of orderliness. So I learn to be precise and accurate. And in learning to be precise and accurate I learn to be totally present with everything that I do.
Bravery | Faith | Family | Fear | Man | Religion | Understanding |
Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.
Confidence | Faith | Man | Think |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.
Boasting | Capacity | Competence | Faith | Light | Nothing |
Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL
Thus to the Lord doth Asha, the Truth, reply: “No guide is known who can shelter the world from woe, none who knows what moves and works Thy lofty plans.”
Faith |
Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL
The teacher of evil destroys the lore, he by his teaching destroys the design of life, he prevents the possession of Good Thought from being prized. These words of my spirit I wail unto you, O Mazda, and to the Right.
Evil | Faith | Good | Land | Mind | Order | Principles | Prosperity | Blessed |
Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL
So conscience for the sinner distorts the truth of the upright, but (his) soul is in agony at the judgment of the Chinvat Bridge, having strayed by his own deeds and tongue from the Path of Righteousness.
Body | Faith | Knowledge | Life | Life | Mankind | Power | Soul |
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
Faith |
A good mayor is a good thing. Are you afraid of the good you might do
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
The question was whether an ape which was being used to develop a poliomyelitis serum, and for this reason punctured again and again, would ever be able to grasp the meaning of its suffering. Unanimously, the group replied that of course it would not; with its limited intelligence, it could not enter into the world of man, i.e., the only world in which the meaning of its suffering would be understandable. Then I pushed forward with the following question: ‘And what about man? Are you sure that the the human world is a terminal point in the evolution of the cosmos? Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man’s world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
Just consider a child who, absorbed in play, forgets himself—this is the moment to take a snapshot; when you wait until he notices that you are taking a picture, his face congeals and freezes, showing his unnatural self-consciousness rather than his natural graciousness. Why do most people have that stereotyped expression on their faces whenever they are photographed? This expression stems from their concern with the impression they are going to leave on the onlooker. It is cheese that makes them so ugly. Forgetting themselves, the photographer, and the future onlooker would make them beautiful.
Faith |
Stay away from evil deeds and indulge in virtuous ones, surrender totally to the will of God. A man, who acts thus, is inevitably blessed with immortality.
Faith |