"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature."
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"The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred."
"If you put your heart against the earth with me In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be So happy."
"Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]"
"The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed."
"Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors."
"I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher."
"We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable."
"Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?"
"Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too."
"The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred."
"She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine."
"Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement."
"We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark."
"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."
"The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy)."
"I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other."
"The sacred truth of science is that there are no sacred truths."
"All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit."
"Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive."