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The Principal Causes of Our Suffering are
Our Past, and Our Expectations and Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
It is necessary for us to understand that
the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
Mind exists as a Principle in the universe,
just as electricity exists as a principle.
- Ernest Holmes
The Science of Mind is intensely practical
because it teaches us how to use
the Mind Principle for definite purposes,
such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.
- Ernest Holmes
Know that the true essence of the Golden Rule
is always being compassionate, kind,
generous, and being in service to others.
Compelling others to behave as you wish
them to behave in the name of the
Golden Rule is a corruption of a sacred principle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have called this principle,
by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin
It is incumbent on every generation
to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would
save one-half the wars of the world.
- Thomas Jefferson
If there is one principle more deeply rooted
in the mind of every American,
it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- Thomas Jefferson
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no principle worth the name
if it is not wholly good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger is something that each one of us has experienced -
some of us only occasionally, some almost daily.
Can we eliminate all anger? Probably not.
We will always have expectations,
and those expectations will often be unmet.
Disappointment is the principle cause of anger.
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
Anger is always directed at someone -
possibly toward God or the non-specific "they,"
but at some animate entity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In principle, the great religions of the world
do not differ as much as they appear to.
- Ernest Holmes
I sincerely believe that banking establishments
are more dangerous than standing armies,
and that the principle of spending money
to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,
is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
- Thomas Jefferson
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle,
that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail,
that will to be rightful must be reasonable;
that the minority possess their equal rights,
which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle,
gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups.
A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
- The Buddha
A principle is the expression of perfection,
and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection,
we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Eureka.
- Archimedes - upon discovering the scientific principle
of displacement while on his bathtub.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner
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