Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends. — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. — Novalis Copy Share Image
By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfolding.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man. — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to… — Frederich Leopold Von Hardenberg Copy Share Image
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of… — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all… — Gardner Murphy Copy Share Image
Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“You must cultivate value within yourself if you want to move forward.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Real happiness comes from the cultivation, the development, of the highest that is in us.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart. — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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