We Lack Quotes

93 We Lack quotes by 85 unique authors

So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not… — Theodore Dalrymple
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that… — Frank Herbert
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we… — Eric Hoffer
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations… — Helen Keller
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly… — Marilynne Robinson
It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against doubt, against darkness,… — George Q. Cannon
The problem that faces us is the problem of awakening. What we lack is not an ideology or doctrine that will save the world. What… — Nhat Hanh
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us… — Mortimer Adler
Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold… — Pema Chodron
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly… — Marilynne Robinson
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. — Anais Nin
We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we… — Ernest Hemingway
Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile. — Hunter S. Thompson
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack. — Arthur Schopenhauer
We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have. — William Shakespeare
It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure… — Terence McKenna
A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts… — Victor Hugo
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of… — Dan Simmons
We have Not one In common No two Are shaped alike The third Because of that eye we lack In the fourth Direction there is… — Tite Kubo
What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us? — Frank Herbert
We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us. — Marianne Williamson

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