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When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Related topics: Wisdom Dreams Imagination
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
We are composed of self-contradictions.
Each of us is loving in some moments - hateful in others.
Patient and calm sometimes - harried by urgency at others.
Understanding - and self-absorbed.
Reassuring - and sarcastic.
Generous - and greedy.
Trusting - and jealous.
Comforting - and snappish.
Original - and stuck in a rut.
Thankful - and needy.
Forgiving - and vengeful.
Nurturing ourself - and stuffing ourself with fast food.
Honoring our bodies - and overstressing.
Being Joyful - and Suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed
in any subject as I am in mine.
- Charles Darwin
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I feel no need for any other faith
than my faith in the kindness of human beings.
I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it
that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
- Pearl S. Buck
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
A vow is a purely religious act
which cannot be taken in a fit of passion.
It can be taken only with a mind purified
and composed and with God as witness.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation
All things share the same breath the
beast, the tree, the man... the air
shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972]
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
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
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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