Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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To virgin minds, which yet their native whiteness hold,Not yet discoloured with the love of gold(That jaundice of the soul,Which makes it look so gilded and so foul)
Abraham Cowley
If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.
Paracelsus
It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
Cormac McCarthy
'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a very sleek, compact little experience.
Kyle MacLachlan
Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.
Lindsay Fox
It's always a weird feeling being on the red carpet, but the more I go, the more I try to connect myself to the here and now. And breathe. That's the way I make the experience a good one. If I think too much - if my head is somewhere else because I'm stressed out - it shows.
Marion Cotillard
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
Mary Baker Eddy
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
Nicole Kidman
Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.
Mariel Hemingway
I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.
David Bowie
The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
