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  • Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

    Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.105, Arcade Publishing
  • The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

    Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.6, University of Michigan Press
  • Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

    Animal   Giving   Body  
    Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA
  • It's more going back into, I've always been really interested in the MKULTRA program and some of the programs and the fact that we really tried to create an actual, I guess you could call it an energy force of yourself. And you know, there were test subjects that were killed during the process. It have a huge ordeal, this huge congressional hearing that shut the whole thing down.

    Energy   Tests   Hearing  
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  • All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?

    Eliphas Levi (2013). “The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag
  • People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

    Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”
  • A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

    Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.92, Lulu.com
  • At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

    Religious   Joy   Promise  
    Huston Smith, Phil Cousineau (2003). “The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life”, p.24, Univ of California Press
  • Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.7, Anchor
  • There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That's where prayer comes in.

    Prayer   Military   Army  
    "The True Story of The Patton Prayer" by James H. O'Neill. Review of the News, www.pattonhq.com. October 06, 1971.
  • Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

    Sick   Soul   Faces  
    John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.520, Canongate Books
  • She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

    Men   States   Babe  
    Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.100, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course, with no makeup and from the awful ordeal, but smiling and radiant, with my hair down to my waist, and reaching out for my first little squirmy child and saying its name, whatever it was.

    Children   Makeup   Hair  
    Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.36, Hamilton Books
  • The ibtilaa' (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy him or diminish his reward and level (in the hereafter). The tests and the trials extract these illnesses from him and prepare him for the perfect reward and the highest of degrees (in the life to come).

  • The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

    Aging   Ordeals   Grows  
  • Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is an ordeal that rips people away from their roots, their important relationships, and a part of themselves. There is really nothing like it - except perhaps war.

    Rip   War   Divorce  
    Suzanne Gordon (1976). “Lonely in America”
  • Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none.

    Long   May   Mercy  
    "War of the Unknown Warriors", BBC Broadcast, London, winstonchurchill.org. July 14, 1940.
  • There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most profound and challenging ordeals is to drink Ayahuasca. It is in a way the ultimate adventure.

  • Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.

    Virgil (2006). “The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.119, Penguin
  • Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.

    Thinking   Fire   Facts  
    "Twelve Virtues Of Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, yudkowsky.net. 2006.
  • The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

    "You can snort as much cocaine as you want and have as many beautiful women as you want ... but it doesn't make you happy" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2008.
  • A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.

    Knives   Justice   Battle  
  • Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

    William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.103, Nuvision Pubns
  • Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.

    Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. March 24, 2015.
  • NOOOO!" On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream. Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home.

    Home   Mean   Eye  
  • Despite all the types of rejection, the most important part is to keep on moving forward and to not give up. If things are getting bad, take a break and seek out people for their opinion on what you may do to improve your presentation. In the end, it is all a numbers game and it does become a lot easier. It stops becoming this big ordeal and is just part of the job.

    Jobs   Giving Up   Moving  
    "Understanding Rejection From Galleries". markedwardadams.com. March 11, 2013.
  • High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.

    School   Fire   Track  
    Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Midnighters #3: Blue Noon”, p.15, Harper Collins
  • Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

    Wisdom   Loss   Cells  
  • There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.

    Hate   Years   Squad  
  • Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

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