Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 168

Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.

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“The very attempt to be like our dearest Lord is already a well-spring of sweetness within us, flowing with an easy grace over all who come within our reach.”

— Frederick William Faber

“The sea, unmated creature, tired and lone, Makes on its desolate sands eternal moan.”

— Frederick William Faber

“Dear Lord! in all our loneliest pains Thou hast the largest share, And that which is unbearable 'Tis Thine, not ours, to bear.”

— Frederick William Faber

“For right is right, since God is God; And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin.”

— Frederick William Faber

“I have no cares, O blessed Will! For all my cares are Thine; I live in triumph, Lord! for Thou Hast made Thy triumphs mine.”

— Frederick William Faber

“Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; To-morrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.”

— Omar Khayyam

“Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the Branches sang, Ah, whence, and whither flown again…”

— Omar Khayyam

“Would but some wing'ed Angel ere too late Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate, And make the stern Recorder otherwise Enregister, or quite obliterate!”

— Omar Khayyam

“The Vine had struck a fibre: which about If clings my being — let the Dervish flout; Of my Base metal may be filed a Key, That shall unlock the Door he howls without.”

— Omar Khayyam

“Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide, And wash the Body whence the Life has died, And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf, By some not unfrequented Garden-side.”

— Omar Khayyam

“Man is a cup, his soul the wine therein, Flesh is a pipe, spirit the voice therein, O Khayyam have you fathomed what man is? A magic lantern with a light therein.”

— Omar Khayyam

“He brought me hither to my great surprise From life I gather but a dark surmise; I go perforce. Why come? Why live? Why go? I ask these questions, but find no replies.”

— Omar Khayyam

“Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.”

— John Dewey

“But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained…”

— John Dewey

“Freedom of thought and of expression are not mere rights to be claimed. They have their roots deep in the existence of individuals as developing careers in time. Their denial and…”

— John Dewey

“Surrender of individuality by the many to someone who is taken to be a superindividual explains the retrograde movement of society.”

— John Dewey

“Form may then be defined as the operation of forces that carry the experience of an event, object, scene, and situation to its own integral fulfillment.”

— John Dewey

“We cannot grasp any idea, any organ of meditation, we cannot possess it in full force, until we have felt and sensed it, as much so as if it were an odor or a color.”

— John Dewey

“All the cases in which means and ends are external to one another are non-esthetic.”

— John Dewey

“The French have a saying: "Time will not consecrate that in which she has been ignored." Bear this admonition ever in mind for it is deeply true.”

— Louis Sullivan

“The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain — in the people.”

— Louis Sullivan

“I am of those who believe that gentleness is a greater, surer power than force, and that sympathy is a safer power by far than is intellect.”

— Louis Sullivan

“If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don’t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.”

— Louisa May Alcott

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