If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.
– Deborah Feldman
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- No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work, everything else goes to waste. – Sunday Adelaja
- If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we’ve been knocked down, then we’re spending our lives lying down. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. – John Barrymore
- It’s not the amount of Bible you read, it’s the amount of Bible you believe. – Carlos A Rodriguez
- a small amount of kindness can make a large amount of difference – J Yates
- Do you know the amount of evil done by well-meaning humans? Oodles. Do you know the amount done by ill-meaning devils? Infinitesimal. – Thomm Quackenbush
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- It is not the amount of friends that is important, but the amount of integrity, sincerity, and love in your friends – Charles F Glassman
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- When we are deeply passionate about something, the obstacles or challenges are diminished by sheer will and desire. – Susan C Young
- When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished. – Sharon Salzberg
- If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state. – Bryant McGill
- A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. – T S Eliot
- When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self-”it is diminished to a mere community center. – Billy Graham
- By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished? – Rachel Carson
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- The paradox of choice; the more options there are, the harder it is to chose and the higher the expectations and so, the satisfaction is diminished. – RADelmonico
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- The present is precious gift.The past cannot be replayed.The future is no guarantee.Live in the present. – Lailah Gifty Akita
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- We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. . – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr