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Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
Freya StarkRead
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
Swami VivekanandaRead
Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.
William WordsworthRead
The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.
Isaac NewtonRead
Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.'
Swami VivekanandaRead
There's such divinity doth hedge a king _x000D_ That treason can but peep to what it would.
William ShakespeareRead
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
Jose RizalRead
She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature, a rose in which love lies in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She creates grace without movement and makes all divinity fit into her slightest gesture. And neither Venus in her shell, nor Diana striding in the great, blossoming forest, can compare to her when she goes through the streets of paris in her sedan chair.
Edmond RostandRead
My divine sign indicates the future to me.
SocratesRead
When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
Swami VivekanandaRead
The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.
Swami VivekanandaRead
We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life.
Walt WhitmanRead
Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensibl e earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.
Annie DillardRead
Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.
Marcus AureliusRead
For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.
Jaggi VasudevRead
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander HamiltonRead
It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
AristotleRead
Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.
Franois-Ren De ChateaubriandRead
The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.
Swami VivekanandaRead
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Swami VivekanandaRead

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