In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The harder something is to acquire, the more satisfying it is when you finally find it.” — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work.… — Isha Judd Copy Share Image
It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them.… — William James Copy Share Image
No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing… — Nicky Ryan Copy Share Image
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like?… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning… — Ray Lankester Copy Share Image
If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well. — Lawana Blackwell Copy Share Image
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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