Evelyn Underhill Quotes
It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will.
Quotes to Explore
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I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.
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This team is resilient. We don't quit. Now we're starting to come into our own.
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I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.
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A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
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I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.
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Scars are wisdom in disguise.
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Once, if I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wines flowed.
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The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create.
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a risk, and I was never confident that I could ever make a full-time living being a musician, but I had to try. Initially, I worked as a jazz musician in pubs or with bands.
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It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will.
