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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #another way #committed #effort #endeavor

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. ↗

— John Wilkins

#lives #make #mind #pleasant #thoughts

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other. ↗

— John Wilkins

#disputes #each #excellent #give #hard

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#exists #independent #isolated #know #nothing

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be. ↗

— Andy Williams

#almost #although #been #business #else

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much talked of immortality. ↗

— José Saramago

#consequences #deeds #forgiveness #immortality #forgiveness

His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven. God's forgiveness is not given in installments. ↗

— Joseph Prince

#forgiveness

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#forgetting #forgiveness #genius #gulley-jimson #heart-beats

When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#find #get #group #kid #kids

Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #life #thoughts #forgiveness