If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for … - Teresa of Avila

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Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow.

Teresa of Avila

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

Perfection, Reason, Seek, Suffering, Understand

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Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully.

Heart, Selfish, Serve, Spiritual, Strength, Waves

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

Eye, Eyes, Giving, Graces, Led, Thinking

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

Conversing, God, Mental, Prayer, Saint, Secret

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.

Forget, God, Meditation, Secret, Soul

No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.

Say, Say Anything, Thinking, Thought, Wish

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Salman Rushdie

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

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Russell Simmons

We want the government to be controlled by all the people, not by the richest 1%. That's always been the first demand. That's a simple enough message, and I think it's pretty clear now, even though much of the media has been disingenuous in its coverage. We don't want the heads of the biggest industries to make all the decisions, because they're not for the people. They're for the corporations. Power to the people!

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Robert Greene

Any momentary triumph you think you have gained through argument is really a Pyrrhic victory. The resentment and ill will you stir up is stronger and lasts longer than any momentary change of opinion. It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate.

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