Condition Quotes
1998 quotes by 1358 authors
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Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.
— Nhat Hanh
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We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.
— Thomas Troward
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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which…
— Thornton Wilder
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It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence…
— Dave Barry
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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling,…
— George Bernard Shaw
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All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them…
— Harriet Martineau
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If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or…
— Maya Angelou
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Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,…
— Samuel Johnson
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I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships…
— Lord Byron
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Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three…
— Peter De Vries
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
— Socrates
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What is this world condition? Body is the world condition. And with body and form goes feeling, perception, consciousness, and all the activities throughout the…
— Gautama Buddha
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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is…
— Gautama Buddha
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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this…
— Plato
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The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much by…
— Unknown Author
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The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable…
— Sophocles
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Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all…
— Plato
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I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your…
— John Bevere
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The path of compassion leads to the development of insight. But it doesn't work to say, "Ready, set, go! Be compassionate!" Beginning any practice depends…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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