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For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#love #mysticism #will #business

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that ↗

— Lalita Tademy

#hardness #lalita-tademy #life #slavery #life

Crying about the economy is a strategy. It won’t get you a job, but it will keep Kleenex in business.
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— Jarod Kintz

#crying #depression #economic-depression #economy #job

When you know your enemy is invincible, run and hide, or may do business with him. ↗

— Toba Beta

#invincible #strategy #business

If you don't like the path your life has taken, choose another. ↗

— Robert G. DeMers

#murder #mystery #life

I want to be happy and stable. My life is clearly going to slow down. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#clearly #down #going #happy #i

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases. ↗

— Burton Richter

#devoted #director #down #energy #energy sources

So I'm up the ghostie creek without an EMF meter ↗

— JoAnne Kenrick

#mullo #mulo #mystery #paranormal-romance #past-lives

At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#mysticism #tautology #love

I once took pleasure some place in seeing men, through piety, take a vow of ignorance, as of chastity, poverty, penitence. It is also castrating our disorderly appetites, to blunt that cupidity that pricks us on to the study of books, and to deprive the soul of that voluptuous complacency which tickles us with the notion of being learned. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#men