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divined

«Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and the of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.»
«Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions»
«To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.»
«Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.»
«What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?»
«There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated»
«A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines»
«I am you; you are ME.? You are the waves; I am the ocean.? Know this and be free, be divine.»
«It is only when you have both divine grace and human endeavor that you can experience bliss, just as you can enjoy the breeze of a fan only when you have both a fan and the electrical energy to operate it.»
«Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.»