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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Your will is the ego part of you that believes you're separate from others, separate from what you'd like to accomplish or have, and separate from God. It also believes that you are your acquisitions, achievements, and accolades. This ego will wants you to constantly acquire evidence of your importance... On the other hand, your imagination is the concept of Spirit within you... with imagination, we have the power to be anything we desire to be.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
Lay your sleeping head, my love, human on my faithless arm; time and fevers burn away individual beauty from thoughtful children, and the grave proves the child ephemeral; but in my arms till break of day let the living creature lie: mortal, guilty, but to me the entirely beautiful.
Belief | Deeds | God | Love | Man | Order | People | Prosperity | Sacrifice | Deeds | God | Victim |
Vitruvius, fully Marcus Vitruvius Pollio NULL
But mathematicians, disputing on the other side, have said that the number called six is perfect for the reason that this number has divisions which agree by their proportions with the number six. Thus a sixth is one; a third is two; a half is three; two-thirds, which they call dimoeros, four; five-sixths, which they call pentemoeros, five; the perfect number, six. When it grows to the double, a twelfth added above six makes ephectos; when eight is reached, because a third is added, there is a second third, which is called epitritos; when half is added and there are nine, there is half as much again, and it is called hemiolios; when two parts are added and a decad is made, we have the second two-thirds, which they call epidimoeros; in the number eleven, because five are added, we have five-sixths, which they call epipemptos; twelve, because it is produced from two simple numbers, they call diplasios.
Vitruvius, fully Marcus Vitruvius Pollio NULL
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.
Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
I put a gentle hand to my chest as I surveyed the situation. The turquoise blue swimming pool some distance behind the lawn was no longer behind that lawn, but within my thorax, and my organs swam in it like excrements in the blue sea water in Nice.
Fortune |
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
Command large fields, but cultivate small ones.
Fortune |
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
Do you believe the enemy have sailed away? Or think that any Grecian gifts are free of craft? Is this the way Ulysses acts? Either Achaeans hide, shut in this wood, or else this is an engine built against our walls... I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
Fortune |
Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL
A thousand people cannot convince one by words to the extent that one person can convince a thousand by action.
Dedication | Fortune | Good | Government | Law | Work | Government |
Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL
The teacher of evil destroys the lore, he by his teaching destroys the design of life, he prevents the possession of Good Thought from being prized. These words of my spirit I wail unto you, O Mazda, and to the Right.
Evil | Faith | Good | Land | Mind | Order | Principles | Prosperity | Blessed |
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
Every man has his appointed day; life is brief and irrevocable; but it is the work of virtue to extend our fame by our deeds.
Fortune |
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Fortune |
Age is no threat to the great men of the mind: with the Dantes and the Michelangelos, to grow older is to grow.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Peace | Prosperity |
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious
My anxiety is over. The Guru has cut away my bonds, and I have found eternal peace. Whatever shall be, shall be in the end; so where can pain and pleasure be seen?
Peace | Prosperity | Happiness |
Such is my love for the Lord of the Universe; through perfect good destiny, I have been united with Him.
Harmony | Peace | Prosperity | Will |
Repent for all the wrongs done and resolve not to repeat the mistake; then God will extend His grace.
Attainment | Prosperity |