“The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say 'I' and 'me.'”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 71
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.”
“To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
“Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.”
“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect.”
“To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.”
“For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!”
“If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.”
“Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.”
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”
“There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.”
“Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us.”
“It is those who cannot connect who hasten to cast the first stone.”