A Quotes
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“A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.”
“A person might have trouble understanding someone like me: a person who believes in the power of rituals. Prayer. Meditation. Candle lighting and incense burning. . . It works for me because in ritualizing something as significant as bidding Godspeed to whatever it is we find necessary to surrender, we acknowledge the leave-taking and can perhaps start to practice acceptance.
A noble thing, acceptance. A noble thing to strive for.”
Source: Bag Lady: A Memoir
“A person moving in zero gravity feels a pitiful helplessness. One wrong move and you find yourself spinning wildly. Everyone becomes a baby again in outer space, laboriously learning how to walk.”
“A person must claim the meaning behind his or her existence. How we live is our final testament to what we believed in and our journey through the corridor of time determines our decisive character.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person must constantly work to develop their self to the fullest embodiment of a human being though their acts of love, compassion, and dutiful work.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person must discern a sustainable philosophy for living, and his or her purposeful intent must be in harmony with their inner spirit as well as the spirit of the universe.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.”
“A person must escape artificial constraints and unfold the myth of their own being. There is only one path for a thinking person in life, and that is to assume the role of a compassionate observer. I can only achieve personal freedom – liberty of the mind, body, and soul – by stop worrying about how other people perceive me and no longer judge myself in terms of fame and fortune.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks buttress our youthful personal philosophy, pain avoidance, and pain therapy are likely two of its foundation stones.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person must find the courage to live a complete and full life. We learn to live when we stop being afraid and by engaging in critical analysis of our own thoughts, motives, emotions, and behavior. A tolerant person who lives without fear extends charity to the entire world. Courage always precedes an act of human grace, which expresses the luminosity of the human soul.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.”
“A person must live in harmony with his or her inner self while recognizing a vital connection to the entire world. A quiet and virtuous mind can live contently no matter what their circumstances, because they do not spend their precious time engaged in worthless faultfinding. Like all despairing men, I need to cease expecting anything from life while expecting more from myself. I aspire to find beauty and joy in the humblest of human activities. I must learn how to ride the clouds and mist, be unperturbed by the petty disputes of humankind, and imperious to other people’s unfavorable opinion of me.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person must make peace with oneself before they will find peace with the world.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person must move beyond guilt and unexamined thoughts and motives in order to discover a purpose for living vibrantly.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person must never live a lie. We free ourselves to live a full life by discovering the courage to face our illusions and live a true life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person must shrug off lies, embrace the unknown and unknowable, and control personal terror in order to do to discover the right path for leading a worthy life. Dare to be an original. Make your life a vivid example for other people how to live splendidly.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person must try to worry about the things that aren't important, so that he won't worry about the things that are.”
“A person needed to experience real danger or they would never find joy in excelling. There had to be a risk of failure, the chance to die.”
Source: Perfect State
“A person needs a great heart to achieve great things in life.”
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.”
“A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.”
Source: The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith
“A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.”
“A person never forgets the landscape of their childhood.”
Source: The Lake House
“A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.”
“A person nurtured by love and one forced into self-reliance perceive the world through fundamentally different lenses. One walks with openness; the other with caution.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.”
“A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.”
Source: A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down
“A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.”
“A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact that in times of stress 'educated' people tend to come to the front; they are no more gifted than the others and their 'education' is generally quite useless in itself, but they are accustomed to a certain amount of deference and consequently have the cheek necessary to a commander. That they will come to the front seems to be taken for granted, always and everywhere. In Lissagaray's History of the Commune there is an interesting passage describing the shootings that took place after the Commune had been suppressed. The authorities were shooting the ringleaders, and as they did not know who the ringleaders were, they were picking them out on the principle that those of better class would be the ringleaders. An officer walked down a line of prisoners, picking out likely-looking types. One man was shot because he was wearing a watch, another because he 'had an intelligent face'.”
Source: The Road to Wigan Pier
“A person of character knows the difference between right and wrong and always tries to do the right thing for the right reason.”
“A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.”
“A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.”
“A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.”
Source: On Self and Social Organization
“A person of faith who shares conservative values and who says very clearly that climate change is real - and here's why we have to care about it - I think that we "unicorns" do pose a threat to people who want to muddy the waters and keep others in the dark.”
“A person of genius should marry a person of character.”
“A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.”
“A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.”
“A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.”
“A person of large dreams does not allow other people’s opinion to damper his or her zestfulness. Overcoming fear of making an irreversible, lifetime mistake is the first step of living an artistic existence.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person of little knowledge
Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.
His fleshes increases;
His wisdom does not increase.”
Source: The Dhammapada
“A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“A person of power embraces challenges in complete gratitude. No matter the situation life may bring, discontent is never justified, rather all is experienced as an opportunity and a privilege to venture and grow.”
“A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.”
Source: There's No Such Thing as
“A person of ritual is respected in their own circle, a person of intellect is respected in some circles, a person of love is respected everywhere.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“A person of riyaa (showing off) has three characteristics : He is lazy when alone, energetic when with others, and increases in his actions when he is praised while decreasing in them when he is criticized.”
“A person of value is always a success but a person who is successful is not always a person of value.”
“A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.”
Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
“A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will.”
“A person of “good character” was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community”