Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I've always been very conscious of who I am. ”

I usually get those parts which are slightly set away, a bit weird, so I am good at that! ”

With shame be it spoken: by her fall, the Church's liberties have been sacrificed for the sake of temporal advantages. The road to her ruin lay through the sinuous paths of riches: she has been prostituted in the streets to princes; she has conceived iniquity and will bring forth oppression to the undeserving. ”

The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church. ”

The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible. ”

Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality. ”

A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere. ”

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. ”

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ”

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. ”