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«The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Suffering
| Keywords:
avoid, Begin, hurt, insignificant, in proportion to, late, proportion, proportioned, smaller, suffer, suffering, Too late, torture, tortures, torturing, Truth Hurts
«The more a person analyzes his inner self, the more insignificant he seems to himself. This is the first lesson of wisdom. Let us be humble, and we will become wise. Let us know our weakness, and it will give us power.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
analyzes, humble, insignificant, lesson, let us know
«Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it»
«Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.»
«The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
apt, insignificant, lowering, neighbors, rising, self esteem, sneer, sneered, sneering, sneers
«The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
bliss, came, consider, gloom, grief, ignorant, insignificant, learned person, might
«The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
comparison, conservation, done for, forests, industry, insignificant, in general, production, shown
«Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.»
«Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
insignificant, trespassing
«This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
assumes, critic, deals, drawing, drawing room, insignificant, The Critic
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