Edwin Booth Quotes
Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
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My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
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Miami is nothing like me, and that's why I need to be here - it's the opposite. I'm practical, where this place is moody, I'm stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and I'm materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - there's a quicksilver quality about this place.
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Some sciences need mutual support and assistance to develop. The majority of these are physical sciences. Mutual support has almost no use in other disciplines, such as attainment of intuitive knowledge of God or spiritual progress.
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Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
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I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group with the other kids and whatnot. It wasn't until I got out of college that I got on my own religious trip and started finding other things out there as well as philosophies. I've kinda been on my own spiritual path since then.
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.
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A loafer never works except when there's a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
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In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.
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For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.
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He who take cookie to bed have crummy night ahead.
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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
