#reverence

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. ↗

— Pythagoras

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Above all things, reverence yourself. ↗

— Pythagoras

#all things #reverence #things #yourself

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#hard #irreverence #wit

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. ↗

— John Milton

#awe #bestows #change #encounter #everyday

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. ↗

— Socrates

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Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #live #mortals #nor #perish

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#court #highest #life #reverence

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it. ↗

— Ben Lindsey

#come #conversation #cosmic #demand #i

And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#careful #day #each #feared #household

Reverence is fatal to literature. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#literature #reverence