The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's essential to tell the truth at all times.
This will reduce life's pain.
Lying distorts reality.
All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.
- John Bradshaw
Correcting bad habits cannot be done
by forbidding or punishment.
- Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of scouting)
Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
If the children are untaught,
their ignorance and vices will in future life
cost us much dearer in their consequences
than it would have done in their
correction by a good education.
- Thomas Jefferson
The civilized man has built a coach,
but has lost the use of his feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
How does so much gossip fit in such small minds?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
Morality which depends upon the helplessness
of a man or woman has not much to recommend it.
Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
You can always tell when a man's well informed.
His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
- Epictetus
The lion and the calf shall lie down together,
but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Hold on with a bulldog grip,
and chew and choke as much as possible.
- Abraham Lincoln
The invisible and nonexistent look much alike.
- Delos B. McKown
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
We do not yet possess ourselves,
and we know at the same time
that we are much more.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not trouble yourself much
to get new things, whether clothes or friends...
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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