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If it turns out that there IS a God,
I don't think that he's evil.
I think that the worst you can say about him
is that basically he's an underachiever.
- the movie Love and Death
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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
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students,
and turns them into prunes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can safely assume that you've
created God in your own image
when it turns out that God hates
all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
The success of love is in the loving -
it is not in the result of loving.
Of course it is natural in love
to want the best for the other person,
but whether it turns out that way or not
does not determine the value of what we have done.
- Mother Teresa
The world turns aside to let any man pass
who knows where he is going.
- Epictetus
At the beginning of a relationship
we are attracted to the other person because
we think they are sexy, smart, funny -
whatever it is that we find appealing.
But very quickly, the focus of the relationship
turns to whether we feel appreciated.
If we don't feel appreciated, we don't feel loved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty
of finding somebody to blame your problems on.
And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable
how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
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
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
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
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
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
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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 can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
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
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
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