"Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in."
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"Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. When you experience the end of one chapter, allow yourself to feel the emotions of loss and rebirth. A bud gives way to a new flower, which surrenders to the fruit, which gives rise to a seed, which yields a new sprout. Even as you ride the roller coaster, embrace the centered internal reference of the ever-present witness."
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"Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t mix in the hard-to-measure stuff that may be more important. That is a mistake I’ve tried all my life to avoid, and I have no regrets for having done that."
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"For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love."
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"Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety."
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"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator."
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"Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy."
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"If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion."
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"Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man."
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"An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view."
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"When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality."
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"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."
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"You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe."
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"Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear"
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"As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration."
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"The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master."
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"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place."
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"Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority."
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"Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map."
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"It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized."
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