Christina Stead Quotes
If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
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I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.
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As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
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Be happy with who you are, where you are, for this is the way.
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.
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Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
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You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.
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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
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We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.
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Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.
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Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
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Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.
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If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
