When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain
Related topics: Spiritual Christian Religion Belief
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you,
its first order of business is to preserve itself,
and the way it preserves itself
is to keep you from having any doubts,
and the way it keeps you from doubting
is to blind you to the way things really are.
- Philip Caputo
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
- Psalm 16:1
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION FEBRUARY 1, 1933
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty
to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation.
It will preserve and defend those basic principles
on which our nation has been built.
It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality,
and the family as the basis of national life....
- Adolf Hitler
I have called this principle,
by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin
Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!"
- Hunter S. Thompson
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people ...
They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit
which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men,
in all lands, everywhere.
Destroy this spirit and you have planted
the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never quit.
- Anonymous
Don't quit.
- Anonymous
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
Choose your goal and keep your eye on it. Never give up.
Perhaps you will need to change your plan
and approach you goal from a different direction, but don't quit.
Keep thinking. Keep re-planning. Keep going.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never give up.
- Anonymous
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human voice can never reach the distance
that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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