#do

There are two things to be aware of if the fight against evil inclinations is to have any chance of success. First, our efforts will never be sufficient on their own. Only the grace of Christ can win us the victory. Therefore our chief weapons are prayer, patience, and hope. Second, one passion can only be cured by another - a misplaced love by a greater love, wrong behavior by right behavior that makes provisions for the desire underlying the wrongdoing, recognizes the conscious or unconscious needs that seek fulfillment and either offers them legitimate satisfaction or transfers them to something compatible with the person's calling. ↗

— Jacques Philippe

#temptations #freedom

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#asleep #books #conversation #dead #design

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#i #less #suffering #wisdom #wise

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#bucket #choose #companions #down #draws

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#anybody #anything #beautiful #does #dream

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#does #hours #line #maybe #moment

Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#coming #days #indomitable #may #mind

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want? ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#boredom #choose #marketing #must #seduction

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#certain #deliberation #dot #end #go

There is a point at which even justice does injury. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #injury #justice #point #which