Proper Quotes

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Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life… — Laozi
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a… — Susanna Kaysen
Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in… — Edward M Hays
Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not… — Joseph Addison
A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the… — Joseph Addison
Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty. — William Shenstone
Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. — William Cowper
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. — Alexander Pope
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. — Aeschylus
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. — William Godwin
A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means… — Wendell Berry
The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of… — Wendell Berry
The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement… — William Howard Taft
We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use. — Chogyam Trungpa
the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of… — David Hume
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed… — Paul Cezanne
Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get, and… — Joshua Reynolds

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