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Essentially all suffering is the result of...
1. Comparing what we have (or don't have) today
... with what we had yesterday.
2. Comparing what we fear we might have (or not have) tomorrow)
... with what we have today.
3. Comparing what we have (or don't have) with what others have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology
Do the best you can. Be proud of your accomplishments -
without comparing yourself to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Instead of comparing our lot with that
of those who are more fortunate than we are,
we should compare it with the lot
of the great majority of our fellow men.
It then appears that we are among the privileged.
- Helen Keller
Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard,"
I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
- Sydney Harris
Let everyone try and find that
as a result of daily prayer
he adds something new to his life,
something with which nothing can be compared.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,
and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
- Thomas Jefferson
Women must pay for everything.
They do get more glory than men for comparable feats,
but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
- Amelia Earhart
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every form of addiction is bad,
no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
- Carl Jung
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
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