Emily Dickinson Quotes
Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.
Emily Dickinson
Quotes to Explore
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei
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There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
Ira Glass
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The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.
Eckhart Tolle
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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
Eckhart Tolle
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
Edmund Husserl
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw
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I felt his presence every day, beginning with the first day.
Cameron Crowe
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For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.
Gabriela Mistral
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Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.
Lisa Unger
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When you walk out there, when you into that stadium, you walk out there with a presence. Mr. Davis called it a swagger. I just want to get back to the point where when we walk into a stadium, they know the Raiders are in town. And when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here. ... We've got to create that attitude, and that's what I expect to do.
Art Shell
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As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.
M. C. Escher
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.
Bill Vaughan
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Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
Aristotle
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
Aristotle
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
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For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.
Aristotle
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I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.
Neil Diamond
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Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.
Nelly
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Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.
Mahatma Gandhi
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One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they left before they tried to steal something. So the police come to my apartment, and they say, 'Oh my God, did they steal everything?' I was like, 'No, it was like that!'
Carine Roitfeld
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We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
John Calvin
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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.
Emily Dickinson
