Quotes of Jacques Benigne Bossuet

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The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

- Jacques Benigne Bossuet

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“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Could you exist just for the art of existence? ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ I have come from the End of the World. From the River of Dreams, through the gauntlet and the Briar and the Deep Wyld, in order to stand before you today. I have but one request—to take my place at your side. To resume my duty as your knight, and to protect you and your kingdom for as long as I draw breath. ”

- Julie Kagawa

“ Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Confusion, obsession, and potential love walk handinhand. ”

- Ashli and Trisha Edwards

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Keep in mind that three months worth of sowing equals three months of reaping at harvest, Remember not to stop sowing your fields in all ways in life after the first three months as its easy to feel good and live off of the fields already sowed but like a meat grinder the stock will eventually run out ”

- James D Wilson

“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualitieshis rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ”

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

- Arif Naseem

“ We need hearts with restored empathy And homes with restored hope ”

- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr