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41 " To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion. "
― Cynthia Bourgeault , The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
42 " Solitude removes us from the mindless humdrum of everyday life into a higher consciousness which reconnects us with ourselves and our deepest humanity, and also with the natural world, which quickens into our muse and companion. By setting aside dependent emotions and constraining compromises, we free ourselves up for problem solving, creativity, and spirituality. If we can embrace it, this opportunity to adjust and refine our perspectives creates the strength and security for still greater solitude and, in time, the substance and meaning that guards against loneliness. "
― Neel Burton , For Better For Worse: Should I Get Married?
43 " How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space. "
― Anaïs Nin , The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
44 " As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in the midst of the dream be aware that he is dreaming, and if the dream be bad, comfort himself with the thought that it is only a dream. This is a common experience with all of us. And so it was that I, the modern, often entered into my dreaming, and in the consequent strange dual personality was both actor and spectator. And right often have I, the modern, been perturbed and vexed by the foolishness, illogic, obtuseness, and general all-round stupendous stupidity of myself, the primitive. "
― Jack London
45 " I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and circumstance of things, whereof the substance is so much in doubt. By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes. "
― John Milton , History of Britain
46 " Literalness, however, is not the substance from which human culture is made. "
― Begona Aretxaga
47 " Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike or of self-interest, or a visit one would rather people did not know about, or a one-day fling one wants to conceal from one's wife - than a good reputation is in utterly overshadowing disreputable habits. "
― Marcel Proust , The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
48 " The best lies are always flavoured with the truth but if the substance is rotten, it will stink no matter how much you try to disguise it. "
― M.R.C. Kasasian , The Mangle Street Murders (The Gower Street Detective, #1)
49 " But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. "
― Thomas Merton
50 " Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen. "
― Duane T. Gish
51 " When we feel the clown, when we have been played, if we have lived by heart, acted out of compassion, we are the substance of the play,rather than merely being played. "
― Tom Althouse, ,
52 " Substance is like tree and smartness its shadow. The smartness is what we think it is and the substance is the real thing! "
53 " It is with words that my heart sings, with the substance of integrity my character soars and without regret I look back smiling ~bns "
54 " Love is not an emotion. Love is the only constant in the universe, the substance and the truth of what we really are. "
― Dragos Bratasanu
55 " Living beings wide and far are creatively enticed into the idea of living only on the substance of leafy greenery by alluring allegations that seem to make apparent sense. Some want to avoid the dying aspect of life and prolong the bodily functions of their organs within their potential corpses over time and reduce the waste products given off by our walking structures to lessen worldly contamination. Others want to avoid consuming Earth’s usual containing features from being overly exhumed, or because we have never not lovingly smothered Earth’s natural oxygen sucking creatures, and so we do not consume the things that are taking nutrients from us so that we can preserve them instead, because we find it morally dissatisfying. "
56 " Life provides the substance for poetry we just have to put it to paper "
57 " I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself. "
― Iris Murdoch , Under the Net
58 " The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do? "
― Thich Nhat Hanh , The Art of Mindful Living: How to Bring Love, Compassion, and Inner Peace into Your Daily Life
59 " It takes those who uses telescope of faith to catch a spiritual vision. To see the invisible things of the Spirit you need the eyes of faith. Faith sees beyond the physical eyes. Live and walk by faith. Christianity is a faith walk. The substance and evidence is seen only with the spiritual eyes. "
60 " Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances but cannot bring into being the substance itself. "
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley