Epicurus Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Epicurus
Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus
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If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Skillful Sayings
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus
Greater Sayings
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne
There is a power for good in the universe
greater than you are and you can use it.
- Ernest Holmes
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
- George MacDonald
The more we care for the happiness of others,
the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The opportunity for greater courage
comes in the most ordinary of moments.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
The mind of man is continuously unfolding
into a greater recognition of its real plan
in the creative order of the Universe.
- Ernest Holmes
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner
in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes
the greater part of his life getting his living.
- Henry David Thoreau
A conversation is greater than
the sum of its participants,
and can take on a life of its own.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracle Sayings
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
I see the miracle in all of life. I am thankful for all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
I am a miracle, and that's why I'm ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A coincidence is a small miracle in which
God chooses to remain anonymous.
- Anonymous
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
The dream was always running ahead of me.
To catch up, to live for a moment
in unison with it, that was the miracle.
- Anais Nin
Just Sayings
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
I love you just the way you are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Just Do it!
- Nike ad
What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Death is just life's next big adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Just another cold, misty morning inviting,
"want to go again?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Just start dancing and the band will find you.
- Tama Kieves
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
What if we just pretended that life was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
The world just IS, and we all have our stories about it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,
men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- The Buddha
Remember, happiness is just a teardrop away.
- the movie Shrek 2
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
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