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When a fish is caught, it no longer needs a lure.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

The most terrible thing during the retreat was the crying of the women. When I think of retreat now, I see long, long roads, and numerous villages, and suburbs, and everywhere women's unspeakable weeping. Ukraine cried.

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

How often, as we ponder some new tender mercy, so undeserved, so dewy with the freshness of love that we long for words of glory to sing that love, we can only say, Lord, Thou knowest me. I am all open unto Thee—and yet Thou hast done this.

—Amy Carmichael

Men don’t like to have Christ preached faithfully; but it is just what they don’t like to have that we must give them. I learned that long ago. The very truths that men object to, and that make them angry, are the truths that bring them to the cross of Christ.

—D. L. Moody

I have found that the man who believes in the Bible always comes out ahead in the long run, and that the man who is too wise and too advanced to believe the Word of God come out behind, in the long run, every time.

—R. A. Torrey

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

—Søren Kierkegaard

“The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want, is priceless. It is the highest dividend money pays.”

— Morgan Housel

“You have to keep at it with a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.”

Charlie Munger

“All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.”

Warren Buffett

“You would be better off if you got a punch card with 20 punches on it—and every financial decision you made you used up a punch.

You would think a long time before every investment decision. You would make good ones and you’d make big ones.”

— Warren Buffett

How often, as we ponder some new tender mercy, so undeserved, so dewy with the freshness of love that we long for words of glory to sing that love, we can only say, Lord, Thou knowest me. I am all open unto Thee—and yet Thou hast done this.

—Amy Carmichael

He is to *sprinkle* that blood upon their souls; he is to *create* the holiness in them that they long after; he is to be himself in them a *well* of water springing up to eternal life.

—John Owen

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

—George Orwell

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

—George Orwell

“Oh, my brethren, believers in Jesus, you are not spiritually dead any longer; on Christ you have believed, and that grand act proves that you are no more dead.”

Charles Spurgeon

“For, first, we were dead in trespasses and sins, but having believed in Christ we have been quickened by the Holy Ghost, and we are dead no longer.”

– Charles Spurgeon

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

—Charlie Chaplin

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

—Charles Dickens

When they no longer trust themselves, they begin to depend upon authority.

—Laozi

These long and difficult intervals will soon be past for ever, and you will see Him face to face who trusted you to trust through any test, through any interval.

—Amy Carmichael

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

—Voltaire

It takes a very long time to become young.

—Pablo Picasso

All has gone to rest, and I don’t know whether I’m alive or will live or whether I’m rushing like this through the world for I’m not longer weeping or laughing.

—Taras Shevchenko

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

—Carl Jung

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

—Carl Jung

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

—Voltaire

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

—Georg Hegel

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

—Charles Darwin

How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense.

—Franz Kafka

“So long as we are receivers of mercy we must be givers of thanks.”

— Charles Spurgeon