Thomas à Kempis Quotes

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

Thomas à Kempis

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• Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.

  

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• He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

  

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• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  

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• I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.

  

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• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

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• I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

  

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• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

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• It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

  

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• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

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• I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

  

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• Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

  

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• I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

  

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• The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.

  

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• I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.

  

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• The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.

  

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• The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is said is true. He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him?

  

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• Kate had dressed for battle, donning her finest pink muslin morning dress. With lace at her wrists and mother-of-pearl buttons at her throat, instead of that itchy servant's cloak, she felt capable of matching wits with anyone.

  

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• We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

  

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• The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

  

  Thomas à Kempis
  • God
  • Man
  • Peace