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Welcome to these Relieving Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past.
Receive insight into relieving the pain
caused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life.
Observe life as it currently appears,
and then train yourself to observe life
from other perspectives that support a higher quality of living.
Re-consider your priorities.
Chart your Course.
Set Sail with Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that unconditional forgiveness
holds immense power to relieve your suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil
to one who is striking at the root,
and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount
of time and money on the needy
is doing the most by his mode of life
to produce that misery
which he strives in vain to relieve.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man is relieved and gay when he has
put his heart into his work and done his best;
but what he has said or done otherwise
shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
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)
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
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
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.
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
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Any man who reads too much
and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
Man must evolve for all human conflict,
a method which rejects
revenge, aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
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
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
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
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee
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
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
There are other measures of self-respect for a man,
than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff
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
Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
There is a sufficiency in the world
for man's need but not for man's greed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
- the movie Braveheart
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
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
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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