“I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody s knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people s knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don t have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I ll just ease them right in and make them my own.”
“God is not honored by groundless love. In fact, there is no such thing. If we do not know anything about God, there is nothing in our mind to awaken love. If love does not come from knowing God, there is no point in calling it love for God.”
“l espace de l esprit, là où il peut ouvrir ses ailes, c est le silence. (chapitre XXIII, dernière phrase)”
“The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.”
“You can think all you can but don t publicize all your thoughts”
“Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.”
“Amanda olhou para ele - Tens de compreender que já não sou a rapariga que era dantes. Sou casada e sou mãe e, tal como toda a gente, não sou perfeita. Debato-me com as escolhas que fiz e cometo erros e passo grande parte do tempo a interrogar-me sobre quem sou realmente ou se a minha vida tem algum significado sequer. Não sou de modo nenhum uma pessoa especial, Dawson, e tens de perceber isso. Tens de compreender que sou apenas... uma pessoa vulgar.”
“It doesn’t matter what you think, what you believe or what you feel the only thing that ultimately matters is what you do.”
“The less you think and the more you do, the better things tend to become.”
“entre plusieurs opinions également reçues, je ne choisissais que les plus modérées, tant à cause que ce sont toujours les plus commodes pour la pratique, et vraisemblablement les meilleures, tous excès ayant coutume d être mauvais, comme aussi afin de me détourner moins du vrai chemin, en cas que je faillisse, que si, ayant choisi l un des extrêmes, c eût été l autre qu il fallu suivre. (3e partie, para 2)”
“philosophes qui ont pu autrefois se soustraire de l empire de la fortune, et, malgré les douleurs et la pauvreté, disputer de la félicité avec leurs dieux. Car s occupant sans cesse à considérer les bornes qui leur étaient prescrites par la nature, ils se persuadaient si parfaitement que rien n était en leur pouvoir que leurs pensées, que cela seul était suffisant pour les empêcher d avoir aucune affection pour d autres choses; et ils disposaient d elles si absolument qu ils avaient en cela quelque raison de s estimer plus riches, et plus puissants, et plus libres, et plus heureux qu aucun des autres hommes, qui, n ayant point cette philosophie, tant favorisés de la nature et de la fortune qu ils puissent être, ne disposent jamais ainsi de tout ce qu ils veulent. (partie 3, para 4)”
“Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.”
“Quem não lê, não pensa, e quem não pensa será para sempre um servo.”
“Les idées sont le contraire de la pensée.”
“Le jugement du corps vaut bien celui de l esprit et le corps recule devant l anéantissement. Nous prenons l habitude de vivre avant d acquérir celle de penser.”
“If you overthink, you become stressed and confused. If you think too little, they will think for you. Maxime Lagacé”
“You can achieve anything you want if you just change the way you think. Will you?”