A Quotes
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“A person's needs are met, and his appetite subsides. A person's wants are met, and his thirst swells greedily without end.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings’ behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person's passion is the fuel that drives their purpose.”
“A person’s past experiences constitute his present worldview, and that worldview determines what choices he will make on the road ahead. My past had shaped the person I was now. I hoped that my experiences could give Liu-laoshi some good impressions, make him love the world and be willing to live in the world as a human, to return once more to her embrace.”
Source: 他们都说我遇到了鬼 [They All Say I Encountered a Ghost]
“A person’s perception on the existence of free will affects how they perceive reality. Rather than exercising any resistance against the inevitability of the future, philosophical pessimists resign themselves to accept whatever will happen. I do believe in limited free will, in part, because I am unwilling to accept that the choices we make and our hard work to accomplish personal goals is a silly frivolity. The universe is conceivably an unstable entity subject to random events and chance encounters producing unexpected and unanticipated events.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.”
“A person's sadness didn't always take a form that others could see.”
“A person’s selection of a vocation is a crucial step with significant ramification relating to their degree of financial success, personal happiness, and sense of contributing the best part of themselves – their unique talent – to the community.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person's self worth or inner merit is the essential commodity, whereas fame is something secondary, the mere shadow of merit. "It is not fame but whereby we merit it that is of true value....a man's greatest happiness is not that posterity will know something about him but he himself will develop thoughts that deserve consideration and preservation for centuries.”
“A person’s spiritual power originates from using knowledge, compassion, charity, and personal humility to break away from custom and creed.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person's suffering is similar to gas. If any amount of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill it completely. No matter how big the chamber. Suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is irrelevant."
- Viktor Frankl for his analogy on human suffering and gas within a chamber.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“A person's true character is revealed when they are angry”
“A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form.”
“A person's true color can reveal his or her actual personality and it could be noticeable by others if they are wise enough to comprehend that person's actual identify.”
“A person's true identity can often be difficult to discern, even to themselves, causing one to question their character, their calling, their very existence. For most, time gives clarity, but for others, these questions remained unanswered for an identity can not be fully defined when it is a guarded secret.”
“A person’s true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“A person’s true nature, true self, cannot change with situations.
It is totally consistent.”
Source: No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
“A person's true strength will be known in his revival, not in his survival”
“A person’s unfilled desire to find love causes human beings to engage in inexplicable behavior. A person must exhibit the maturity of the soul to charitable express love for other people before other people will reciprocate by sharing feelings of mutual affection. To be loveable, we must learn how to love.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person’s work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A person whom fails to find suitable work that allows their soul room to grow will quickly begin eroding into a withered and desiccated being.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person’s zealous act of rebellion leading to their expulsion from a pampered private sanctuary is the first step in self-articulation. Passion requires a struggle. Only by risking committing grievous error can men and women claim authorship for their own destiny. Only the vigorous pursuit of our destiny allows us to discover our authenticity. When we learn to stop resisting our innermost calling, when we accept a lifestyle that makes us experience joy by pursuing our passions and the commonplace acts of being, we discover our pathway to bliss. We must listen to the demands of our spirit; we must break free from self-imposed barriers and cultural impediments that obstruct us from achieving the final manifestation of our spiritual being.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person said on a PTSD site they weren't happy with their life but they were still breathing. I replied. Personally I love breathing I try to do it as often as I can between cigarettes...”
“A person seeks to quantify their existence. Do we measure a person’s life by its longevity or by assessing the warmth of its blaze? Do we measure a person by their brainpower or by the heartiness of his or her spine? Do earthy deeds count for more than intellectual opinions? What is more important, the work that a person produces or the quality of life that effuses from their being? Does it matter how we live and how we die, if we love or hate, are kind or mean, generous or stingy? Does it matter that we struggle to express personal doubts and toil in an effort to obtain redemption for our personal lapses?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person should always be willing to adjust for a rainy day. That was a good attitude in all of life, but was a reality to the way of life for those residing in Florida.”
Source: Summer 20XX
“A person should be buried only half a meter, or two feet, below the surface. Then a tree should be planted there. He should be buried in a coffin that decays so that when you plant a tree on top the tree will take something out of his substance and change it into tree-substance. When you visit the grave you don’t visit a dead man, you visit a living being who was just transformed into a tree. You say, “This is my grandfather, the tree is growing well, fantastic.” You can develop a beautiful forest that will be more beautiful than a normal forest because the trees will have their roots in graves. It will be a park, a place for pleasure, a place to live, even a place to hunt.”
“A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.”
Source: On Liberty
“A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.”
“A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“A person should never foreclose oneself from experiencing opportunities to learn. American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) advised, ‘The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.’ A euphoric experience – the rapturous joys of life – is available to a sincere person whom perceives truth, statements that fit properly into a system taken as a whole (coherence).”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person should not be elected because of his faith nor should he be rejected because of his faith.”
“A person should not be overwhelmed by grief even if they suddenly lose everything, because everything in this world is transient, and everything belongs to God.”
“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.”
“A person should not have to be brutalized to be considered strong.”
Source: Mother of Rome
“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.”
“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.”
“A person should try to understand dreams. A person should take warning from them.”
Source: Back When You Were Easier to Love
“A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.”
“A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word "no," of jealousy, of guarding you and your freedom. But the signs can be so small they skitter right past you. Sometimes they dance past, looking satiny, something you should applaud. Someone's jealousy can make you feel good. Special. But it's not even about you. It's about a hand that is already gripping. It's about their need, circling around your throat”
Source: Stay
“A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.”
“A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.”
“A person speaks more about his character through his shared images or uploaded profile picture than with his words or deeds, but only a leader who is always true to himself correctly reads them.”
“A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.”
“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
“A person struggling with an eating disorder keeps their rituals and disordered behaviors secret - it is a double life of sorts - and the behaviors themselves could be thought of as a maladaptive attempt at a solution. The symptoms are used to maintain a state of mind, full of fantasies of the possibilities of a 'moment' or a 'life', without what 'feels' unbearable. The person, in the eating disorder (ED) 'body-state,' truly believes that there is no other way.”
Source: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders
“A person such as the president canon impulse and with minimal effort inject any sort of falsehood into public conversation through digital media and call his own lie a correction of "fake news.”
Source: The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
“A person suffering a meaning crisis in their life can ill afford not to investigate their life and examine their beliefs before personal disdain for living conspires to exterminate their most precious gift, the spark of creativity and desire to produce an artistic testament to their existence.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person supporting [Donald]Trump likes Trump. And I think they would say the same about me.”
“A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”
“A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.”
“A person tastes the sweet pride of doer-ship by saying ‘I did this so well’. The taste of this subtle pride seems to be very sweet. There is suffering with the false imputation (of doer-ship). God is in the state of eternal bliss, and that is indeed the nature of the Self!”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization