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"Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself."--I Timothy 6:5
"He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."--Matthew 10:39
"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:"--Romans 3:10
"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:"--Ephesians 2:8
"The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being."--J. Krishnamurti, The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Vol. IV, p.25
"But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war--because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation."--J. Krishnamurti, The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Volume V, page 339
"After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is."--J. Krishnamurti, The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Volume V, page 349
"The way to do is be."--Lao Tzu
"In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped."--Lao Tzu
"I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something."--Walter Cronkite, famous USA newscaster
"Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also."--Matthew 23:26
"The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men--the man he is and the man he wants to be."--William Feather
"You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking."--Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher
"Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself."--Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper, A Guide to Rational Living, Third Edition, p. 175. Order A Guide to Rational Living.
"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is."--John L. Spalding
"There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely."--Ugo Betti
"Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is."--Angelo Patri
"Do not wish to be anything but what you are."--Saint Francis de Sales
"LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us."--Isaiah 26:12
"The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody."--Buddhist saying
"Pursue the light and you lose its source."--Buddhist saying
"He who soars not suffers no fall."--Taoist saying
"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours."--Epictetus, Enchiridion
QUOTATIONS KEVIN
"Beings are living and doings are dying."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Becoming is disintegrating self."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"If you must be something then be empty and weak so you are meek."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"You can grow and develop your ego but not your self."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"You did not create your self, therefore, you cannot change your self."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
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