Quote by Aldous Huxley
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstac

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. – Aldous Huxley

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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley

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One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters. – Aldous Huxley

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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. – Aldous Huxley

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The dog is the god of frolic. – Henry Ward Beecher

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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and thats why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. – Mother Teresa

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can – namely, surrender our will and fulfill Gods will in us. – Saint Teresa of Avila

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Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. Thats baseball as it should be played – in Gods own sunshine. And thats really living. – Alvin Dark

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Our patience will achieve more than our force. – Edmund Burke

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And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at…. – Williston Fish, “A Last Will,” 1898

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An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. – Ambrose Bierce

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