Stephen Fry Quotes
Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.
Quotes to Explore
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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
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I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.
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It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.
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It takes some silence to make sound.
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I've always embraced my curves since I was a teenie-bopper.
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I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.
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Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.
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It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends. The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life.
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Each creature walks a perfect earth. Each one gets the suffering and comfort that he needs. When ALL cravings and needs are satisfied, each bit of Soul, merges again with the One.The amount of joy and suffering in the world is always counterbalanced. One person's evil can terrify thousands, but one person's good can succour thousands too.
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As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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...thankful to finally be reunited with my wife and five children. I did my time in prison and have moved on with my life. I hope and pray that everyone will try to understand that my past is behind me and to please focus on my future and what I do from here on out.
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I can't stand jelly shoes. They're ugly and not comfortable.
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In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
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People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.
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So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don't have to be responsible for that. But in fact they learn to love reading at home, and therefore it's really important that we as parents preserve the joy of reading by supporting them and reading things that speak to their hearts, books that they love.
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Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.
