Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Alan Watts

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

Chogyam Trungpa

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.

Djuna Barnes

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Diane Wakoski

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Dianna Agron

We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

Carl Sagan

Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

Byron Katie

Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.

Cesare Pavese

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Alexander McCall Smith

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

George C. Wallace

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

Saadi

He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

Susan Ertz

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

Teju Cole

There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.

W. Somerset Maugham

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Benjamin Cardozo

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Alan Furst

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Anne Fadiman

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Eugene Debs

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Nicholas Winton

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

Oscar Isaac

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

John Milton

Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

John Walsh

This was such a massive catastrophe. I don't know that anything could have been done differently. We had a lot of heroic people.

Nelson Mandela

reaching the end of a long and heroic struggle.