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Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation,
with a right, by the will of its majority,
to bind themselves, but none to
bind the succeeding generation,
more than the inhabitants of another country.
- Thomas Jefferson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside.
The bravest man is who can see the world
without the barrier of the mind, just as it is.
It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful.
There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior -
there are no distinctions.
- Osho
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
On life's journey, faith is nourishment,
virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day
and right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- The Buddha
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.
The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
- Mark Twain
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