Christmas Humphreys Quotes

#1. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the great Republic of America, to our Elector Primo, to our glorious states, to unity against the Colonies, to our impending victory!

Marie Lu

#2. M. Gandhi is reported to have said: "There go my people. I must find out where they are going, so I can lead them."[a.]

John Gall

#3. In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.

Tom Szaky

#4. Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

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#5. For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.

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#6. For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire.

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#7. It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

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#8. And now to one side Gorgythion drooped his head and heavy helmet; He let it fall over like the bloom of a garden poppy, heavy with seed and the rains of spring.

Homer

#9. We see, at least with intellect, that beyond both true and false is truth; that there is beauty beyond our present views on the beautiful and ugly; that pleasure-pain can now alike be transcended, and that some day we shall truly see that 'form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form'.

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#10. The burden of Karma is heavy. All alike have heavy debts to pay. Yet none, so the Wisdom teaches, is ever faced with more than he can bear. Whether or not we can grin, we must bear it, and it is folly to attempt to run away.

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#11. If you think Thanksgiving has been fun, just wait until Christmas."...
The doors slammed shut with a muffled thud, and all he could think about was the revenge she could be planning. He'd never looked forward to anything more in his life. "Game on.

Sara Humphreys

#12. The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

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#13. Which begs the question, What is?

Suzanne Collins

#14. As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering? ... by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.

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#15. Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind.

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#16. YOUR values determine your behavior, not what you think she wants, not what you think others want, but what is best for you and best for the relationship.

Mark Manson

#17. How long the path may be depends for any man on where he stands today and his speed of travel. These are his past and present choosing, but the beginning of the way is here and now, and karma and rebirth are the means of treading it.

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#18. The Road has two rules only: begin and continue.

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#19. The prince shrugged. Who needs magic when you look this good?

Victoria Schwab

#20. The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.

Jean De La Bruyere

#21. Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense;
Truth is apt to be neither.

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#22. They downloaded another customer query, and Mae scrolled through the boilerplates, found the appropriate answer, personalized it, and sent it back.

Dave Eggers

#23. Of course the thinking mind must sooner or later be controlled, developed, and supplied with the force of will for a break-through to non-thinking, a direct experience of non-duality. But at what stage?

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