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140 Diminishes quotes by 118 unique authors
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Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones,…
— Erin Morgenstern
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A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."…
— Karen White
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Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.
— Brian Weiss
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Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more…
— Victor Serge
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Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones,…
— Erin Morgenstern
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As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we…
— Emile M. Cioran
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From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out…
— Rumi
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
— William James
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Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.
— Tony Robbins
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
— Octavio Paz
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As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten…
— Jenna McCarthy
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I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
— William Boyd
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We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with…
— Marianne Williamson
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When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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I think when a campaign is dishonest in the ads they run about another candidate, it diminishes the campaign, it diminishes the candidate, and it…
— Mitt Romney
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Arrogance diminishes wisdom.
— Arabian Proverb
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.
— Lynn Caine
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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated…
— John Donne
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.
— Francois La Rochefoucauld
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