Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Practice Quotes

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

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Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.

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A mind that practices love cannot love.

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It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

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'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we will make it vehicle and base, take our stand upon it, store it up, throughly set it going.'

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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

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We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

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Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'

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This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

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How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

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By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

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Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

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Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

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Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.

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When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

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Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

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You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

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