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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.
Joseph Joubert on poetry

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
Joseph Joubert on religion

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.
Gamaliel Bailey on doubt

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Gamaliel Bailey on earth

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Gamaliel Bailey on evil

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
Gamaliel Bailey on love

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
Joyce on time

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung on addiction

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Jung on understanding

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Juvenal on beauty

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.
Juvenal on vice

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
Juvenal on women

I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.
Jim Kaat on success

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
Kabbalah on change

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.
Kabbalah on evolution

Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected.
Kabbalah on health

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Kabbalah on life

If there were no strong hand at the service of good in the world, evil would multiply.
Kabbalah on punishment

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Kabbalah on spririt

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
Kabbalah on unity