M Quotes
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“Many are so preoccupied with what others think it defines their existence. When we fixate externally, it keeps us from truly knowing ourselves and our destiny. Most [people] fear looking inward for worry they won't find greatness, but when you stop allowing others to define your worth, you'll see—greatness exists in us all, waiting to be expressed”
“Many are so used to laurels and presume that they are real winners.”
Source: Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
“Many are still floundering in the darkness
trying to gain self-esteem as a personality
Trying to sustain an Earth body
with a personality
Connect with the super conscious
regions of the mind
and realise the self-esteem
that you are really looking for
is your identity in timelessness
Your intricate part in the operation
of creative life”
Source: Nathon's Keys to Freedom
“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.”
“Many are stumbling in the dark looking for answers to questions they are yet to form.”
Source: Life Is a Dance
“Many are the children who have become the company of wrong friends because their parents had no time to build friendships with them.”
“Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose names are recorded in biography. Even the humblest person, who sets before his fellows an example of industry, sobriety, and upright honesty of purpose in life, has a present as well as a future influence upon the well-being of his country; for his life and character pass unconsciously into the lives of others, and propagate good example for all time to come.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.”
“Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.”
Source: Plato: The Complete Works including 31 Books (illustrated)
“Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.”
“Many are the questions we could ask about prayer, but what puzzles me most is—does God even want it?”
Source: The Specific Gravity of the Soul
“Many are the scholars who make it their professional occupation to occupy themselves in this towering edifice of culture, exploring its nook and crannies, developing their responses, making their contributions here and there, and helping to hand it on to succeeding generations. For some the temptation proves irresistible to go yet farther and make this the concern of their lives, letting society go its own sorry way while they lock themselves away in this abiding, socially transcendent cultural stronghold, acquiescing in society while pursuing Bildung. As Rotterdam burns, they study Sanskrit verb forms.”
Source: Until Justice and Peace Embrace
“Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years.”
“Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.”
“Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?”
“Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.”
Source: Dialogues of Plato
“Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.”
Source: Ten Greek Plays
“Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.”
“Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse”
“Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.”
Source: Shinjo: Reflections
“Many are to believe on Christ through the communication of truth by His servants. As they see the beauty of the Word of God, and as they see Jesus revealed in the lives of His children, they will praise Him with heart and soul and voice.”
“Many are tormented by fear for years. God has given them a lot of victories, but they still are fearful. Fear is a wicked enemy. No matter what is coming upon us, even if someone is standing there ready to put a knife in our heart, fear is not of God. Even if God lets it happen to us, fear is sin, which brings torment.”
Source: Judah, The Church Today
“Many are whispering that Voldemort must be behind it. However, that is the point: They whisper. They daren’t confide in each other, not knowing whom to trust; they are scared to speak out, in case their suspicions are true and their families are targeted. Yes, Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion: Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.”
“Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.”
“Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.”
“Many areas of Los Angeles have gang problems.”
“Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.”
“Many argue that individual action doesn't matter in an issue as global and enormous as the climate crisis. They are wrong. Individual actions matter, but perhaps not in the way you think. You alone will not solve the climate crisis. Neither will I. But if you intentionally live a more sustainable life and connect with your community about your practice of One Green Thing, you can build momentum for culture change to shift policy.”
Source: One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet
“Many argue; not many converse.”
“Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle”
Source: Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck
“Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get it. Once they start to mingle with the collectors and learn that they are people who have achieved something who then expand into art, they change their minds.”
“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”
“Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.”
“Many artists give up after a while.”
“Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
“Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.”
“Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi!”
“Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.”
“Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.”
“Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.”
“Many artists who sign deals in the US and UK get the benefit of worldwide promotion and have a better shot at breaking globally.”
“Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically, to produce works that stand alone and exist as photographic paintings.”
“Many ask me whether pranayama ... postpones old age. Why worry about it? Death is certain. Let it come when it comes. Just keep working. The soul has no age. It doesn't die. Only the body decays. And yet, we must never forget the body, since it is the garden we must cherish and cultivate.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“Many ask: “Why are we so insincere, why are we so hypocrites?”. Well, it is because this is how human nature works. If there was a time and a place where human beings were 100% of the time honest, who always said what they had in mind and who didn’t care to cover their shortcomings by displaying a better persona than the “real” one, it is long since gone, wiped out from the relentless force of natural selection.”
Source: A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms
“Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.”
“Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.”
“Many aspects of positive schizotypy -magical thinking, paranoid ideation, and the tendency to form novel and unusual ideas and express them in idiosyncratic ways- can contribute to a compelling leader personality, often with religious or messianic overtones.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach