Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover is the most precious, the most marvelous possession.

Elizabeth von Arnim

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• I'm a progressive.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Progressive

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Brave

• The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Form
  • Female

• There is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance. . . . "Look to God and live." This is the wonderful promise given so often in the scriptures. . . . Our capacity to see and comprehend is increased only in proportion to our willingness to look. God becomes more approachable as we look to him.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • God
  • Live
  • Promise

• If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Nature
  • Beauty
  • Finds

• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

  

  William James
  • Society
  • Motivational
  • Intelligence

• Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Process
  • Names

• There is no superior person by constitutional standards. An applicant who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that fact, nor is he subject to any disability, no matter what his race or color. Whatever his race, an applicant has a constitutional right to have his application considered on its individual merits.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Reason
  • Individual
  • Atheism

• Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Car
  • Enjoyed
  • Travelling

• One day I was in an airport rushing to catch a plane. I was sweating and puffing when I looked to my right and saw a man walking half as fast as I was, but going faster. He was walking on a moving sidewalk. When we walk in the Spirit, eh comes underneath us and bears us along. We're still walking, but we walk dependent on him.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Spirit
  • Walking
  • Bears

• True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Wisdom
  • Happiness

• Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • She
  • Beautiful

• When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Self
  • Clinging

• I'm a member of the National Trust. I absolutely love architecture, history, geography, the arts and culture. Oh, and I love gardens. I moved from London to Hertfordshire, so I could get a garden.

  

  Limahl
  • Architecture
  • Absolutely
  • Geography

• Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover is the most precious, the most marvelous possession.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Possession
  • Precious