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Idries Shah quote: "None should say : 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he..."
None should say : 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting. Idries Shah
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings. Phillips Brooks
It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all. Peter Ackroyd
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real. Elizabeth Gilbert
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. Niels Bohr
In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is on duty here; he knows not how or why, and does not need to know; he knows not for what hire, and must not ask. Somehow or other, though he does not know what goodness is, he must try to be good; somehow or other, though he cannot tell what will do it, he must try to give happiness to others. Robert Louis Stevenson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without..."
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ayn Rand quote: "We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences..."
We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. Ayn Rand
He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its mysteries. For medicine is an eternal quest for reasons - causes that explain effects. Science cannot comprehend a miracle. Erich Segal
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God. Henri Nouwen
Corrie Ten Boom quote: "If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy."
If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy. Corrie Ten Boom
Henry David Thoreau quote: "There are many fine things we cannot say if we have to shout."
There are many fine things we cannot say if we have to shout. Henry David Thoreau
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand..."
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
J. M. Barrie quote: "If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing."
If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing. J. M. Barrie

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