Quotes Reflecting the Personal

7/31/2019 Quotes Reflecting the Personal

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Quotes reflecting the Personal

Seneca

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too

long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but forthose who love, time is eternity.

Roman Payne

Its not that we have to quite life one day, its how many things wehave to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, thephysics of falling leaves, vanilla, anthills, poppies, literature, candlesand subway trainsif only one could leave this life slowly.

Andrew Marvell (From To His Coy Mistress)

And your quaint honour turn to dust.

And into ashes all my lust:

The graves a fine and private place,

But none, I think, do there embrace

Simone de Beauvoir

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete

abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, thespell is broken.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, andthis is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of dutyor to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

George Santayana

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity wehave and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails,existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
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Jacques Casanova de Seingalt (Memoirs)

A prejudiced mind cannot reason well. (The young countess)

Love is only a feeling of curiosity more or less intense, grafted upon

the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may bepreserved. (Ch 7)

Cheating is a crime, but honest cunning may be considered as aspecies of prudence. (Ch 8)

Oh! Charming simplicity! Offspring of wit and ignorance, thy charmis delightful, and thou alone hast the privilege of saying anythingwithout ever giving offence. But how unpleasant thou art when thouart not natural! And thou art the masterpiece of art when thou artimitated with perfection! (Ch 19)

However wonderful it may appear, silliness is the daughter of wit.(Ch:28)

The pleasure which follows desire is the best, for it is the most acute.(said by Marchioness Chigi regarding Horace Ch 132)

By recollecting the pleasures formerly, I renew them. I enjoy them asecond time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past,and which I no longer feel.

Aeschylus

Boldness of speech never became the weak. (The suppliants)

When one is willing and eager, the gods join in.

Aristotle

Character is habitual action

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be consciousof our own existence.

A friend is a second self.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angrywith the right person and to the right degree and at the righttime and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that isnot within everybody's power and is not easy.


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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is thequality, which guarantees the others.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We donot act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we

rather have those because we have acted rightly. We arewhat we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but ahabit.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does oneday; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make aman blessed and happy.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain athought without accepting it.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letterof reference.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; forpoetry expresses the universal, and history only theparticular.

The secret to humor is surprise.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and thepower of contemplation rather than upon mere survival

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in bothpassions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that whichis intermediate.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while itis true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for somenoble object but to escape some ill.


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Well begun is half done.

Wit is educated insolence.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had

all other goods.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. Itis the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

We must as second best...take the least of the evils.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Anon

If you have an honest mind and are prepared to look at the truth, itcan be understood.In order to love someone you must believe you see into his or herheart. A mother does this from the moment of birth of her child, alover after desire.

Those who take pleasure in seeing others happy are in themselvesfulfilled.

The most powerful word in any language is why. In societies wherea persons right to question is accepted the use of this word leads tounderstanding and abundance. Where free use of the word isfrowned upon, sacred dogma cannot be questioned, individual right issuppressed.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrowthat flies feels the attraction of earth.

Bertrand PiccardI deeply believe that the worst thing in life is not to fail: it is not to try.

Arthur Schopenhaur

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no oneelse can see.


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Benjamin Franklin

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

James A Froude

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

William Hazlitt

Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the air, andwarmed by the sun; and is not a hothouse plant or an exotic

If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory

As is our confidence, so is our capacity

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire ofthe end will point out the means

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of beingovertaken

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reasonAndre Breton

It is living and ceasing to live which are imaginary solutions.Existence is everywhere.

Ross Macdonald

If you withdraw your spirit deep into yourself and out of sight, itcouldnt be completely destroyed. But it might go blind in the internal

darkness. (Sleeping Beauty Ch. 14)Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; Blame yourself that youare not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is nopoverty.

Abraham Lincoln


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When I do good, I feel good; When I do bad, I feel bad. And that ismy religion.

Albert Camus

I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out thereisnt, than live my life as if there isnt and die to find out there is.

Ivan Turgenev

A poet must be a psychologist; but a secret one. He should know andfeel the roots of phenomena but must only present the phenomenathemselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

Carl Sagan

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But withoutit we go nowhere.

David Hawkins (Power vs Force)

There are no causes within the observable world..the observableworld is a world of effects.

V Prabhakan

Fear is the outcome of weakness, a cowards friend, an enemy offirmness. Fear of death is the cause of all human fears. One who

wins the fear of death wins himself. He is the one who wins thefreedom from his mental prison.

Buddha

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole lifewould change.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent ofthrowing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge islost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thusplace himself that knowledge may grow.


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To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall notbe able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong andclear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are

cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughtsof resentment are forgotten.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the ideaof Unity are already two.

In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies theworld's true strength.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own inthe midst of abundance.

The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. Ithas to be the greatest.

The greatest prayer is patience.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not actas if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...notgoing all the way, and not starting.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a lifeof service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and thereis nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Thenthe victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by

demons, heaven or hell.Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart giveyourself to it.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life;foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.


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Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has theirsuffering. Some suffer too much, others too little

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appearsfrom good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful

mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs thelight of wisdom and the guidance of virtue

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do notbelieve in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored bymany. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written inyour religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on theauthority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditionsbecause they have been handed down for many generations. Butafter observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees

with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all,then accept it and live up to it.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth,faithfulness the best relationship.

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using wellspoken words; This is good luck

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you shouldnot, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk andwater, mingle together.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is nosnare like folly, and there is no torrent like greed.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the onewho endures that the final victory comes.

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless inone's actions; this is the best good luck.

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a lifeof service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing issuffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair aresuffering.


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Henry Miller

Imagination is the voice of daring, If there is anything Godlike aboutGod it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Ralph Waldo EmersonNothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.

Why should we make account of time, or of magnitude, or of figure?The soul knows how to play with them as a young child plays withgraybeards and in churches.

The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature,and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourselfslumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to

dare all.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his ownhome.

William Blake

A truth thats told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent

Albert Camus

A mans work is nothing but a slow trek to rediscover, through thedetours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whosepresence his heart first opened.

Stephane Mallarme

That virgin, vital, beautiful day: today.

Abigail Van Buren

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

George Bernard Shaw

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Saul Bellow
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A man is only as good as what he loves.

Samuel Johnson

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of avigorous mind.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because theyhave never deceived us.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of thosewhom we cannot resemble.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledgewithout integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimescheated than not to trust.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended,the more difficult it is to find anything to say

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who haverisen far above him.

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudicesto be opposed.

People need to be reminded more often than they need to beinstructed.

Ovid

The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Ayn Rand

In learning, we draw an abstract from concrete objects and events. Increating we make our own concrete objects and events out of anabstraction. (Notes dates May 4, 1946)


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John Hope

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of therequisites to further achievement.

Ernest HemingwayFor a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can.Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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