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The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper pleasure of ritual.
- C. S. Lewis
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
- John Lancaster Spalding
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people’s hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human ‘brain’ with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human ‘heart’ with compassion.
- Dalai Lama Xiv
Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
- Charles Dickens
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
- Thomas Merton
I try to avoid stress — it makes me feel like I'm rubber-stamping all my organs “Urgent”!
- Terri Guillemets
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