People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder. — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is… — Shoitsu Omatsu Copy Share Image
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have… — John Piper Copy Share Image
I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding… — Yamada Koun Copy Share Image
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at them. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
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