Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.
Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
Enlightenment is an ocean of awareness that slides through the human part of us and dissolves it, and leaves us forever in eternity.
The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.
Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.
That's one part of my game that never leaves - the defensive part.
When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.
You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.
Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.
Having every little aspect of your life in the public eye is really hard because it leaves more room for criticism, and I just want to live.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
I hope that we will find a solution that leaves Britain as a partner in a lot of the European activities that we need them to be a partner in.
I'd love to hold a koala. They sleep 22 hours a day, eat eucalyptus leaves and just hang out. I want to spend some time with that guy.
The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.
Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
A True Friend who leaves heart felt messages, can be a lighthouse to others, sharing light and truth, which comes from their heart.
The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.
On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!
Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.
It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.
Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.
In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.
When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.
Being open to the concept that globalisation is only 10-20% complete leaves room for some expectation that there might be more gains to be achieved from further integration.
We did not come to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves like the trees,
Trees that start again.
You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more.
He never leaves my side. And I know he never will.
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.
In my personal life, dark material is kind of an emptying out - it leaves more room for light. If I'm writing a particularly awful scene, something is released in the process.
The key to getting the record is running fast because someone else did not take it too crazy at the beginning, so it leaves me with a lot of energy to close.
Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves.
I don't think I will ever be erased from people's memory as I like to believe the work I do leaves an impact on people.
I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.
According to a new poll, the number of Americans who trust Hillary is dropping. Specifically into a hole that Hillary covered with leaves.
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
But blacks make little to no progress and, worse, the preoccupation with injustice only leaves them eternally inconsolable and cut off from their own best energies and talents.
When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.
The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.
Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.
I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of room for poetry and my own interpretation.
We should not cling to crude down to the last drop - we should leave oil before it leaves us.
She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
'Borne,' in a weird way, even though it's a totally different universe, picks up where the 'Southern Reach Trilogy' leaves off, because it's post-apocalyptic.
There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.
Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.
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