We Gain Quotes

112 We Gain quotes by 93 unique authors

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons… — Michael J Cohen
By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace… — Frederick Lenz
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What… — Eric Hoffer
The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to… — Sara Davidson
The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat. — Napoleon Bonaparte
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. — Charles Darwin
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent… — Charles Lamb
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is… — Thomas Merton
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire;… — Maria Mitchell
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that… — Eleanor Roosevelt
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price. — Rabindranath Tagore
As we gain experience with the Holy Ghost, we learn that the intensity with which we feel the Spirit's influence is not always the same. — David A. Bednar
When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When… — Dalai Lama
There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably. — Federico Fellini
We can make a little order where we are, and then the big sweep of history on which we can have no effect doesn't overwhelm… — Robert Frost
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. — Oliver Sacks
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience,… — Orson F. Whitney
Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day - whether it be… — Jack Canfield

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