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Life is a constant opponent,
and an overpowering adversary if attacked directly.
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life -
a parry here, a feint there - always engaged,
but never in the direct line of life's heaviest blows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain.
To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
- Carlos Castaneda
In the final choice, a soldier's pack
is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The African is my brother but he is
my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The more a man can forget, the greater the number
of metamorphoses which his life can undergo,
the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man is but the product of his thoughts -
what he thinks, he becomes.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
The man who is awakened, lives in such a way
that he leaves no footprints.
- Osho quoting The Buddha
I do not know whether I was then
a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now
a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
- Zhuangzi
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
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
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
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