A Quotes
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“A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know.”
Source: The Books of Ember Omnibus
“A person who treats someone unfairly may start to show a tendency to be unfair to other people, or he may regret what he did and never act unfairly to others! What usually happens is the former!”
“A person who treats you with true respect will want you succeed in life, possess alot of tolerance with your flaws and understand bounderies.”
“a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.”
Source: The Union Moujik: Janvier Chando &
“A person who undermines authority, disrespect and disobey the law, always shows barbaric behavior.”
“A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.”
“A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.”
Source: The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
“A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us... What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of earth, but also the earth's ability to produce.”
“A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.”
Source: But Enough about You
“A person who wants nothing fears nothing.”
“A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment.”
“A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.”
Source: Sara Crewe: Or, What Happened at the Miss Minchin's Boarding School
“A person who wasn't outraged on first hearing about quantum theory didn't understand what had been said.”
“A person who wholly follows the Lord is one who believes that the promises of God are trustworthy, that He is with His people, and that they are well able to overcome.”
Source: God's Keeping Power
“A person who will not take care of the little things will not take
care of the big things, for big things are but an accumulation of
little things.”
“A person who will travel to the stars will become a superstar.”
“A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.”
Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience
“A person who won’t do it has no advantage over someone who can’t do it.”
“A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.”
“A person who works for an oppressive regime is an oppressor.”
Source: The Fugitive
“A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.”
“A person whom encounters disproportionate grief is likely to either capitulate to madness or ascend to a higher level of cognitive awareness.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person whom fails to conquer oneself will always live in fear, and experiences life filled with conflict and emotional storms. Fearfulness prevents a person from perceiving reality and ever knowing oneself. Unable to cope with fear and uncertainty, a person resorts to denial, repression, compromise, and hides behind the mask of a false self.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person whom ignores learning and gathering of wisdom from the world’s great thinkers runs the risk of never escaping a dark canister housing his or her personal ignorance.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person whom is dissatisfied with the existing constitution of the self might wish to eradicate the self. A spiritual death can take the form of either physical death or a metaphorical death in the form of a premeditated ego death. An intentional ego death entails consciously deconstructing oneself in an effort to reconstruct a new personage. An ego death must precede the birthing of a robust personality that is equally comfortable with the knuckle busting effort that a life well lived entails.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person whom lives in a deliberate and thoughtful manner can resist passively assimilating society’s deviant values and unwholesome cultural mores, and live in a courageous and generous manner while passionately pursuing a full life that transcends wastefulness, miserly accumulation, and exploitation of other people.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person whom questions the purpose behind enduring life strafed with pain and self-doubt must construct a self-rescue plan. Does a demoralized person discover contentment and a meaningful life through expanded intellectual studies or by becoming engrossed in living deeply connected to nature? Should I seek personal conquest and eradication of ugly segments of my persona or merger and unification of the irrational splinters of a fragmented and traumatized personality? How does a person express what it means to be human? How does a person locate the incandescent flash of their flesh? If I shout into the wind with all my might, will responsive people hear my wild cry? Will placing pen to paper buffet the cantos of a troubled mind, expose the operatic musings of a madman’s ranting song, or will looking at each day through the diverse lens of both detachment and solipsism ignite an illuminating shaft of wisdom to grace the sinkhole of a fallen man?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person whom refuses to grow will never attain bliss.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person whom seeks self-improvement must design specific tasks that instigate learning.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person whom trains alone in isolation for extended hours or otherwise lives in a state of exile from civilization while pursuing his or her private passions can fall victim to the solipsism syndrome, a psychological state where they do not perceive the world as external to their mind. Feelings of loneliness, detachment, and indifference to the outside world characterize this syndrome.”
“A person whom works exclusively for money places a price tag on his or her soul. A person whom labors to attain fame seeks a false form of adulation. The writer ignores the lure of a glamorous life by seeking to penetrate the darkness of their own being and meditate the larger issues that frame existence. A seeker knowingly follows a path that is barren, bleak, desolate, and unproductive in terms of attaining recognition and exulted social and financial status.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person whom writes begins by putting down what they know about loneliness, shame, love, and heartache. In writing fully, they discover many other aspects of themselves that they never suspected including doubts, beliefs, ironies, and farcicalities.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character.”
Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“A person whose eyes are always in the future is doomed to lose his today!”
“A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism, and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.”
“A person whose heart if full of love will find this world is a beautiful and lovely place.”
“A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'”
“A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.”
Source: Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV
“A person whose name we know is way more likely, to get our attention, than a person whose name we do not know. The opposite is true, when it comes to things.”
“A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.”
“A person will complain about his problems, unwilling to receive solutions, while demanding attention trough a victimization, reflecting lack of responsibility.”
Source: Overcoming Depression: Pragmatic Solutions to Deal with Suicidal Thoughts
“A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.”
“A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.”
Source: Successful Selling
“A person will only do what you allow them to do, be careful on what you allow”
Source: Mental Remedies for Positive Thinking: Change Your Mindset, Transform Your Life
“A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.”
“A person will tell you a lot about themselves on the mat.”
Source: Worth Defending: How Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life