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"When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing." - Saint Francis of Assisi ...

"Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything." ...

"Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned." - Charlotte Bronte ...

"Originality and a feeling of ones own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle." - Feodor Dostoyevsky ...

"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure." Tommy Lasorda ...

“Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.” - Samuel Ullman ...

"Underlying our glitzy modern consumer culture there is a deep spiritual undernourishment and malaise that manifests all kinds of symptoms: nervous disorders, loneliness, alienation, purposelessness So blanking out, running away, burying our heads in sand or videotape will take us nowhere ...

“If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ” - Steven Wright ...

"Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci ...

"In prayer you become one with the source of our true light, Jesus him­self." - Pope Francis ...