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A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Simplicity
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE....
A mind that perceives
What can rationally be.
A spirit that sees
Innovative possibility.
A heart that is open to
Both beginnings and ends.
A firm hand that fits readily
To the reach of a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As she passed among the hungry and the dejected,
delivering the rations and water,
she chanted in a low whisper,
"the spark of the mind - the sparkle of the soul" ...
"the spark of the mind - the sparkle of the soul" ...
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions
has never overcome them.
- Carl Jung
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder
and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.
- Jim Elliot
Completion:
It is time for the project to be over.
You submitted the proposal, you painted your house,
you passed-in the term paper.
Whatever praise or criticism you received,
it is now time to move on to your next project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
when he fell into the hands of robbers.
They stripped him of his clothes, beat him
and went away, leaving him half dead.
A priest happened to be going down the same road,
and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
So too, a Levite [religious leader],
when he came to the place and saw him,
passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan [Samaritans and Jews generally disliked
and were suspicious of each other] came where the man was;
and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds ... and ...
took him to an inn and took care of him. ...
Jesus [said] "Go and do likewise."
- Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan)
In rivers, the water that you touch
is the last of what has passed
and the first of that which comes;
so with present time.
- Leonardo da Vinci
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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)
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
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
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]
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 does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
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.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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.
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
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.
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
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
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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
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
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
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