A Quotes
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“a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.”
Source: The Solitaire Mystery
“A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.”
“A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?!”
“A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.”
Source: Babbitt
“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.”
Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]
“A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.”
“A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.”
“A sense of accomplishment Ahh yes. There's just (Nothing like it) Today, KNOW You can make it happen like no other. It's the Truth. Lean into the direction of your dreams today. Everything is brewing for you, all that you want is on the brink of complete overflow. Get out of your own way and Allow the overflow to happen.”
Source: How to Write High Quality Articles In Half the Time
“A sense of achievement improves general confidence and self-esteem.”
“A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.”
“A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.”
Source: Ivor Gurney: collected letters
“A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we ought to live. Guarding others' lives, the ecology and the earth is the same as protecting one's own life. By like token, wounding them is the same thing as wounding oneself. Consequently, it is the duty of each of us to participate as members of the life community in the evolution of the universe. We can do this by guarding earth's ecological system.”
“A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.”
“A sense of belonging is not physical. We cant find it by changing where we live or what we do. We have to carry it within us”
“A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.”
“A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.”
“A sense of comfort is your enemy.”
“A sense of community has always been important to me. I understood very early that I could not grow as an artist or as a person without being connected to institutions and clients that served the community.”
“A sense of completion drives us.”
“A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness”
“A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness”
Source: The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom
“A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.”
“A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.”
“A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.”
“A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.”
Source: Love or perish
“A sense of "Desiring to Mythologize" comes into play as a mind embraces an expanded center. The wonder of it all trends towards "Mythology" to get any frame of reference actively running. Mythology Theory creates new options prospectively while closing off lines of thought found "not worth(while)." This occurs physically.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“A sense of direction is immensely important to ensure we remain in alignment with our goals and aspirations.”
“A sense of duty imprisons you.”
Source: Truisms and essays
“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”
“A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.”
Source: Works: with a Biographical Memoir
“A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery.”
“A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.”
“A sense of his own identity came upon him with a sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.”
“A sense of hopelessness had invaded his bones, as chill and as inescapable as the rain.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.”
“A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.”
“A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.”
“A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.”
“A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.”
“A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.”
“A sense of humor is essentially a sense of perspective. It is an understanding that comes from a true sense of proportion. Humor is not a matter of laughing at things, but of understanding them. At its highest it is a part of understanding life. It is an ability to see ourselves as we are, and to smile at the comic figure that the biggest of us cuts in strutting across life's stage.”
Source: Unprofitable servants: Conferences on humility
“A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?”
“A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.”
“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”
“A sense of humor is needed armor.”
“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”
“A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail.”
“A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.”
Source: Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance
“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.”