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The Marvelous
«What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God»
Author: Monica Baldwin
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Humility
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capacity, closest, creates, desirable, humility, intimacies, intimacy, marvelous, most desirable, The Marvelous
«Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.»
Author: Avram Noam Chomsky
(Activist, Linguist)
| Keywords:
discontent, economic, economic growth, economists, liberal, Maintaining, marvelous, privilege, stilling, The Marvelous, unlimited, unnoticed
«I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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believe in, Believe It Or Not, ecstasies, ecstasy, escape, excitable, feelings, impress, impresses, impressing, intoxication, let go, lyrically, marvelous, musically, no more, One Power, one way, ordinary, reality, shackle, shackled, shackles, stronger, The Marvelous, thirstier, thirsty, transform, understands, walled, walls, wall in, wall up
«In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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in all, marvelous, The Marvelous, The Nature of Things
«I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
absurd, awareness, cherish, cherishing, comprehend, comprehended, comprehending, comprehends, conceive, conceives, conceive of, conceiving, creatures, death, Death itself, devoted, devoting, egoism, eternity, ever so, existing, experience, feeble, feebler, feeblest, glimpse, glimpsed, glimpses, God of death, has a, individual, Itself, kind, manifesting, manifests, marvelous, mystery, neither, Nor, physical, physical death, physical structure, physical world, portion, portion out, punishes, reason, rewards, satisfied, souls, strived, striven, striving, strivings, structure, structured, structuring, such, survives, The Marvelous, thoughts, tiniest, together
«The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
awe, awed, awes, a little, comprehend, comprehended, comprehending, comprehends, contemplated, contemplates, curiosities, curiosity, eternity, every day, Every Little Thing, existing, help, holy, holy day, in awe of, lose, marvelous, merely, mysteries, mystery, questioning, reality, stop, structure, structured, structuring, The Marvelous, tries
«I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest»
«The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
dark, hilltop, limitations, marvelous, overcome, rewarding, richness, The Marvelous, traverse, traversed, traversing, valleys, wonderful
«The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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approached, borders, greatly, Jonah, marvelous, nearer, swallowed, Swallowing, The Marvelous, The Story, whale, whales, whaling
