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Things Quotes by Martha Beck
- If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff…
- Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with…
- At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.
- The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become…
- I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
- To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
- You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
- You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive…
- It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used…
- Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.
- When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can…
- Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable in…
- My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle