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• personal
• energy
• personality

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go? Jodi Picoult

• understanding
• worship
• earth

The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of the sense both of culture and of cult. The ideas of tillage and worship are thus joined in culture. And these words all come from an Indo-European root meaning both "to revolve" and "to dwell." To live, to survive on the earth, to care for the soil, and to worship, all are bound at the root to the idea of a cycle. It is only by... Wendell Berry

• romantic
• romantics
• poor

Being poor is only romantic inbooks. Sidney Sheldon

• serious
• watch
• the who

I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses Umberto Eco

• people
• wants
• wanted

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything. Eugene V. Debs

• money
• expectation
• powerful

You who are in power have only the means that money produces? we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts. Alexander Dumas

• respect
• people
• country

Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect. C. S. Lewis

• hard
• time
• true

Now, helpless in the hollow of. An unarmorial age, a trough. Of smoke in slow suspended skeins. Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into. Untruth. The stone finality. They hardly meant has come to be. Their final blazon, and to prove. Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love. Philip Larkin

• believe
• doctor
• believers

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself Winston Churchill

• mindfulness
• free
• mind

To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion. It is only in that state that one learns and observes. And for this, a great deal of awareness is required, actual awareness of what is going on inside yourself, without correcting it or telling it what it should or should not be, because the moment you correct it you have established another authority, a... Jiddu Krishnamurti

• different
• personality
• people

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking? David Foster Wallace

• hard
• loneliness
• him

It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• love
• teaches
• loving

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing. Jane Austen

• god
• book
• reflection

The objectivity of the narrator is a modern invention, we need only reflect that our Lord God didn’t want it in his book. Jose Saramago

• men
• thoughts
• alive

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive. Alberto Moravia