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Us Quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude…
- The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying.…
- By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather…
- So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the…
- Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how…
- It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or…
- Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.
- When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time relax and be…
- Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.
- In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals…
- We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for.…
- Psychological knowledge has made us dull.
- Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness…
- The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a…
- We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is…
- The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each…
- There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings…
- By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather…
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- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong