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Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to appreciate your job
is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything
and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love.
That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature.
By and by love becomes not a relationship,
it becomes a state of your being.
Not that you are in love - now you are love.
- Osho
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho
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