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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
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Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment.
It is us.
- Vivian Greene
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
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Fortify yourself with contentment,
for it is an impregnable fortress. -
- Epictetus
Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic,
that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea -
and there is no experiment up to now
that has found any center in the brain
which corresponds to awareness.
The whole work of meditation is
to make you aware of all that is "mind"
and disidentify yourself from it.
That very separation is the
greatest revolution that can happen to man.
Now you can do and act on only that
which makes you more joyous, fulfills you,
gives you contentment, makes your life a work of art, a beauty.
But this is possible only if the master in you is awake.
- Osho
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
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)
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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
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.
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
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.
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
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
It is what a man thinks of himself
that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
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]
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
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
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour
is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly,
until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- 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
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
- Epictetus
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
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
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