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Less Quotes by Rachel Naomi Remen
- When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The less time we…
- I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be…
- Befriending life is less a matter of knowledge than a question of wisdom. It is not about mastering life, controlling it or exerting our will…
- Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal.…
- Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set. I think that…
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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — Jane Austen
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. — Jane Austen