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Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...


Elizabeth Hardwick

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ROXANE GAY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Quite a few of the double letters are high-scoring letters.
DEWI MORRIS JONES I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate th...
JAN HUS Butcher of Dachau, murderer, Pontius Pilate, King Herod. You name it, it's all in there, ... On the ...
HARRY BLACKMUN Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial
SENECA Sweep aside those hatred-eaten mystics, who pose as friends of humanity and preach that the highest ...
AYN RAND A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSON We liked the shape of the letter. We thought it was unique and had more presence than other letters.
JACK COLLINS ((والشيخ والشيخة إذا زنيا فارجموهما البتة))
{{Thus the old ma...
KAMARAN IHSAN SALIH I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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NEIL POSTMAN Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so gr...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humo...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humo...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humo...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Many young artists today only experience copyright as an obstacle, a source of incomprehensible dema...
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LISA TANZARELLO To Miss Cooper
Cousin,
Conscious of the Charming Character which in every Country, and eve...
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MICHAEL BEN ZEHABE We went to school in a place without the sun,and believed this means we had no need of our shadows.
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JACK D. ZIPES We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less si...
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their ...
SHARAD VIVEK SAGAR Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality
RICHARD CECIL Unfortunately, when we run out of room, some of the sentimental items without monetary value, (such ...
LEE BAERLOCHER Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, a...
SAINT IGNATIUS The ideal is to respect the ways of life and beliefs of others. The only responsibility that we have...
JAIME ÁBREGO In this era, there are all kinds of prakrutis (personality of the relative self), so how can it work...
DADA BHAGWAN We knew from the very beginning that this was a Soviet crime. There were letters (from the detention...
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LETTERS OF ST. HERMAN OF ALASKA Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences ...
HENEPOLA GUNARATANA It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the demo...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS To live without love for others is to live in aridity, to be self-serving and fruitless. To live wit...
BELSEBUUB Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall ...
JOHN DONNE Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empa...
C. JOYBELL C. We are not to restrict God's presence in the world to a limited range of “pious” objects and sit...
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ROBERT DARNTON ‎"If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we ...
WILLIAM LANE CRAIG A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eager...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can...
JOHN GROGAN If you are ready to trade the hollow self-made beauty of this world for the glorious Christ-built be...
LESLIE LUDY No power does ever take shape without the capability of resistance ... and we can promote the potent...
ALI SHAMKHANI Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters ...
BARTHOLINI The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel t...
MILAN KUNDERA Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
C.S. LEWIS Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole w...
C. S. LEWIS What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a pur...
THOMAS AQUINAS Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is depend...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only...
SIVANANDA SARASWATI What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedbac...
SOURCE UNKNOWN This is a source of great worry for some people. Without memory, we wouldn't be able to perform basi...
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any...
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BRANDON SANDERSON Everyone of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self..We are not very good at recognizing ...
THOMAS MERTON Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when...
GREG ILES Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeli...
MIREILLE MATHIEU We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this w...
GEORGE SAND Conversation, to take another example, is one of the common pleasures of life, but not all conversat...
ALEXANDER LOWEN All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY These letters are all I have left.
26 friends to tell my stories to.
26 letters are all I ...
TAHEREH MAFI Immigration reform should not become the means to undermine the Constitution, nor should it place un...
CAROLINE FREDRICKSON It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of langua...
EDWARD SAPIR Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any...
MAYA ANGELOU Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The s...
INGMAR BERGMAN The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and ...
R. D. HITCHCOCK For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and...
MARIE DE FRANCE Just as you can be for health care reform without having any animosity toward nurses, you can be in ...
IRA MEHLMAN All of us are tethered to some purpose in life, and therefore we are unable to understand Krishna. W...
OSHO In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want t...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any oth...
MAYA ANGELOU Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 I can see no intellectual objection to ...
DONALD O. SOPER Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly t...
JAMES ALLEN Thanks to health reform, women across the country with private insurance can get birth control witho...
ANN MCLANE KUSTER He who fails to know his real and true competitor shall never be able to give a good account of his ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions...
A. C. BENSON I have 65 letters here and a petition with 50 names on it. This doesn't count all of the letters and...
JAN JOHNSTON Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a s...
JON KABAT ZINN Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a s...
JON KABAT-ZINN But I do not see this as a shortcoming. For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the ...
RENEE AHDIEH My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we ...
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ELIZABETH WARREN Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro...
ELIZABETH MERIWETHER The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im...
ELIZABETH BERKLEY I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
ELIZABETH GASKELL I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...
ELIZABETH GASKELL I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster...
ELIZABETH II If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome...
ELIZABETH HURLEY Minds ripen at very different ages.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will...
ELIZABETH GILLIES You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb eno...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage
ELIZABETH TAYLOR There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - g...
ELIZABETH WARREN The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it re...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
ELIZABETH BOWEN When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
ELIZABETH BOWEN The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.
ELIZABETH BERG Says Momma: “I got handed lemons, too, y’know but I learned how to make lemonade with them… No...
ELIZABETH FLOCK