Evagrius Ponticus Quotes
If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.
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I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.
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The iPad changed my life!
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What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react.
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Today is the day of decision.
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You have strengths within your team every single year and sometimes they stay the same, sometimes they change.
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Ooh, you look much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you know what I mean - Goyle's Potion looked like bogies.
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You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.
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I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.
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We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
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The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.
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God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.
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Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.
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Nog was proud to be a Ferengi, but that didn’t mean he was proud of everything the Ferengi people had ever done, and that definitely included plenty of his relatives.
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If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.
