Eva Mendes Quotes

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

A wise person would never be eager to ask for acknowledgment of his or her contribution.

I await a project where I'd have to deeply invest my emotions in.

It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

Real meditation we get from within or from a spiritual Master. We can never get it from books. From books we can get inspiration or an inner approach to the fulfilment of our outer life. But in order to have true meditation we have to go deep within or follow the guidance of a spiritual Master.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

And the way he looked at her was so intense, his big green eyes probing into her, like he approved of everything she held inside.

I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.

You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it.

When I reap the rewards, I don't even know I'm reaping them.

Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely new world of living. e. An intuitive grasp of Truth, above and beyond intellectual reasoning. f. A personal experience, in which we are happy and healthy human beings.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

Love is the water of life, drink deeply.

Love's like virtue, its own reward.

If your goal has no inherent reward, you do not have a goal.

Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.

Reward is its own virtue.