"The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth."
Anonymous
"The struggle hurts now but will be sweet in times of retrospect."
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
"Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about."
John Green
"The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way."
Alan Hodgkin
"There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another?"
Kristen Callihan
"A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons."
Sarah J. Maas
"Real Martial Arts is Mathematics, Physics, Poetry; Meditation in Action."
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
"Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us."
Bill Moyers
"I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it."
Andy Serkis
"You have to do what feels right for you. Do not let anyone influence you otherwise. It is your mind, your heart, and your own internal wisdom that will lead you in the direction you need to go."
Elizabeth Berrien
"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful."
Ninon de L'Enclos
"He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind."
Arthur Urbane Dilley
"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."
Edmund Burke
"There are some people that you cannot change you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone."
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