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Comparison Quote of the Day

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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

Related topics: Wisdom Values Buddhist Envy Inner-Peace

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln

Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky

One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion
is the truest to every man even if it stands low
in the scales of philosophical comparison.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau

I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale

You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb

Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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