Lessen Quotes

99 Lessen quotes by 92 unique authors

Lessen selfishness and restrain desires. — Laozi
And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed… — Birch Bayh
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. — Joseph Priestley
About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that I made some… — Robert Kennedy
Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just… — Rajneesh
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. — Elizabeth Fry
The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding… — Marianne Williamson
Avoiding fear and pain can cause them to grow stronger. The trick with fear is to go with it, to let it do it's work.… — John Earle
There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it. — Seneca the Younger
All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what… — Anne Lamott
A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home. — Yasmin Mogahed
No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only… — Lysander Spooner
Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of broken homes. It… — David O. McKay
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and… — Josiah Warren
You have more and more people coming into the tent with the creative guys [on Hollywood films]. You have marketing and concept testers, advertising people.… — James L. Brooks
Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your family doctor; you… — Vincent McNabb
Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins… — Victor Davis Hanson
Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so. — Marissa Mayer
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling. — Meghan O'Rourke
Lessen the quantity of unnecessary thoughts and allow more space for the energy of love to flow within you. — Mata Amritanandamayi
I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in… — Rosalind Franklin
An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life. — Stephen Samuel Wise
Individually we can work on ourselves. By working on your own ego and developing truth, control, and an equitable inner dialogue, you individualize the spirit… — Stuart Wilde

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