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«If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.»
Author: Barbara Bush
| About:
Children,
Men
| Keywords:
capabilities, Human potential, perceived, possessing, potentials, strengths, thrive, unlimited, unresponsive, weaknesses
«If the unexamined life is not worth living, the unexamined past is not worth possessing; it bears fruit only by being held continuously up to the light, and is as changeable and as full of surprises, pleasant and unpleasant, as the future»
Author: Brendan Gill
(Author, Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
bears, continuously, possessing, surprises, unpleasant
«How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Questioning
| Keywords:
acquiring, Die in, fullness, needful, possessing, to become
«In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Dreams,
Men,
Youth
| Keywords:
fall in, fall in love, possesses, possessing, younger
«Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing»
«Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.»
«Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
consciousness, dignity, honors, possessing
«As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable»
«Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
| Keywords:
aroused, astonish, dreamed, possessing, put into action, revolutionize, revolutionized, revolutionizing, slumbering, slumbers
«Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
last century, possessing, state of affairs
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