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Weight Quotes - Page 4

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.186

The specific weight of the soul is equal to the sum of what has been dared.

Bert Hellinger (2002). “On Life and Other Paradoxes: Aphorisms and Little Stories from Bert Hellinger”, p.49, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

Stop and reflect on what your diet is doing for you.

Alice McCall (2009). “Wellness Wisdom”, p.36, Alice McCall

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.30, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.

Karl Barth (1968). “The Epistle to the Romans”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

Daniel Defoe (1836). “The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe”, p.338