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Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarRead
Love is within us. It cannot be destroyed, but can only be hidden
Marianne WilliamsonRead
The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
D. A. CarsonRead
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac AsimovRead
I like to photograph people who have strength and dignity in their faces. Whatever life has done to them, it hasn’t destroyed them.
Paul StrandRead
There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.
Alexander HamiltonRead
If you persist in trying to attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift), if you persist in making effort to obtain what effort cannot get, if you persist in reasoning about what cannot be understood, you will be destroyed by the very thing you seek. To know when to stop, to know when you can get no further by your own action, this is the right beginning!
ZhuangziRead
God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.
Dale E. TurnerRead
Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.
Ravi ZachariasRead
When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.
Billy GrahamRead
Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
Ansel AdamsRead
Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.
Leo TolstoyRead
The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.
Franz WrightRead
When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.
Dalai LamaRead
I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.
Junot DiazRead
The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
Baruch SpinozaRead
Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.
Gautama BuddhaRead
The Faith does not mean an alienation from any culture for any people because all cultures await Christ and are not destroyed by the Lord. In fact, they reach their maturity.
Pope Benedict XviRead
Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war.
J. F. C. FullerRead
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRead

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