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Hunger makes a thief of any man. ...
by Pearl S. Buck

Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck

Related topics: Sad Feeling-Down Life Human-Nature Psychology

What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck

When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I feel no need for any other faith
than my faith in the kindness of human beings.
I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it
that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
- Pearl S. Buck

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery
of the relationship between men and women.
- Pearl S. Buck

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

The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa

For food that stays our hunger,
For rest that brings us ease,
For homes where memories linger,
We give our thanks for these.
- Anonymous

There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa

Love men and women not for their strength
but their softness,
not for their fullness but their hunger,
not for their plenty but their need.
- Anais Nin
(paraphrase)

If we were meant to be happy,
why did God create war, hunger, and the 11 o'clock news?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hunger is the best pickle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir

Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock

The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James

Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb

It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith

We have a choice of how we view the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte

A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The most important promises are
the ones we make to ourselves.
The promises we makes to ourselves
are the things that assure us
we have the capacity
to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus

Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer

Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain

Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain.
To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
- Carlos Castaneda

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie

The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The River of Life has no expectations
and makes no assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say.
Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful:
he makes saints out of sinners.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie