“It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” InspirationalEnoughReligionEasyFriendshipReligiousCompassionEnemyWiseWords Of WisdomDiversityRegardMereFriendlyReal FriendsTrue ReligionFriends And EnemiesOne FriendCompassion For OthersQuintessenceWorld ReligionsFriend EnemyEasy FriendshipBefriendingTrue Brotherhood Book:Gandhi on Non-violence Source: Gandhi on Non-violence
“Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration.” HeartKindEasyCommonRaceQualityRegardSimplicityCommon SenseGenerosityIslandsCharacteristicsRoughAdmirationStrongestSouthernManlinessKind HeartGeniality Author:Ernest Bevin
“Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.” PersonsI CanSometimesEasyWatchesSeeingCoupleBuiltRegardMutualLastingBlindnessLasting Love Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but also that which is apprehended by the soul, the conviction that the object [of belief] is exactly as it is apprehended. If, as regards real or supposed truths, you content yourself with giving utterance to them in words, without apprehending them or believing in them, especially if you do not seek real truth, you have a very easy task as, in fact, you will find many ignorant people professing articles of faith without connecting any idea with them.” PeopleIfsGivingMindBelieveIdeasRealSoulFactsReadingBeliefEasyObjectsBearsTasksRegardLipsConvictionIgnorantArticlesConnectingUtteranceUnderstand MeIgnorant PeopleReal TruthEasy Tasks Book:The Guide for the Perplexed Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.” MenMayMatterEasyJusticeCommonKindnessRegardGratefulBottomWitBordersInjuryWhy NotExcessRighteousScrewsGood WillScrew UpsIngratitudeMischievousCommon Things Author:Seneca the Younger
“Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.” IfsGivingShouldMeanPersonsMatterAbleLanguageEasyNaturalWrittenTroubleLettersRegardGrammar Author:Lord Chesterfield
“Next to clothes being fine, they should be well made, and worn easily; for a man is only the less genteel for a fine coat, if, in wearing it, he shows a regard for it, and is not as easy in it as if it was a plain one.” IfsMenShouldWellsMadeShowsNextEasyFineClothesRegardWornCoats Author:Lord Chesterfield
“I've been very fortunate, because sometimes it's difficult to work with your spouse. But in our case, it's a great working relationship, and we have complementary skills which makes it easy to work together. So I've been very fortunate in that regard.” SometimesTogetherEasyDifficultCasesSkillsRegardFortunateWorking TogetherSpouseGreat WorkComplementary Author:Anousheh Ansari
“I worked with Judi Dench in Cranford. She's not at all starry, she's very easy and funny to be around, but I had such an enormous respect and regard for her before I met her that I was quite starstruck.” EasyMetsRegardEnormous Author:Martin Shaw
“After multiple trips to Paris and being accused of participating in 'heinous' activities in regard to the state, I found my Romanian nationality revoked by 'presidential decree' in 1975. Because I hadn't asked for political asylum like everyone else, I had to live and travel with the infamous Nansen Passport from then on. This wasn't easy...I finally obtained my French citizenship in 1983.” StatesPoliticalFoundEasyActivityRegardPresidentialParisMultipleCitizenshipAccusedNationalityParticipatingAsylumsDecreePassportsInfamousBeing Accused Author:Dumitru Tepeneag
“It's very difficult to have any faith in the sincerity of the SLORC about stamping out drug production if they find it so easy to forgive a drug baron whom at one time they said they would never, never forgive and would never, never regard as anything but a drug runner. The SLORC is far more aggressive in its attitude toward the National League for Democracy than against drug traffickers.” IfsSaidEasyDifficultAttitudeDemocracyDrugRegardForgivingProductionsLeagueSincerityAggressiveOne TimeRunnersThey SaidNever Forgive Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“It is quite easy to understand what China would need from the African continent with regards to its own economy, raw materials, oil and a market for manufactured goods. As I say it is not difficulty to understand and perfectly legitimate. There is nothing wrong with that.” NeedsEasyDifficultEconomyMaterialsRegardChinaOilGoodsContinentsRaw MaterialsAfrican Continent Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course there are. But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism. At some point, you have to decide who you are and what matters morally to you. And once you decide that you regard victimizing vulnerable nonhumans is not morally acceptable, it is easy to go and stay vegan” MatterUseCoursesSocialEasyAnimalProductsRacismPressureRegardWho You AreVulnerableRacistSexismVegetarianVeganAcceptableWhat MattersVeganismHomophobiaHomophobicAbolitionistSocial PressureFrancione Author:Gary L. Francione
“Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are being loving when actually they are being possessive or manipulative. People sometimes treat others as objects to satisfy their own needs... How easy it is to be deceived by the many voices in our society that advocate a permissive approach to sexuality, without regard for modesty, self-respect or the moral values that bring quality to human relationships! This is worship of a false god. Instead of bringing life, it brings death.” PeopleLifeNeedsHumansSelfSometimesValuesEasyVoiceLove IsQualityMoralObjectsApproachWorshipTreatsRegardSexualitySelf RespectOur SocietyModestyDeceivedHuman RelationsLife DeathHuman RelationshipsMoral ValuesPossessiveManipulativeFalse Gods Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have. We can however give some, and millions of people do, governments do, but there is so much more to be done.” PeopleWorldGivingDoneSeemsGovernmentCoursesEasyPovertyMillionsViolenceSubjectsWillingKeysGiving UpThirdsRegardGreedExtremesDebtCeaseLuxuryRelativeFrustratedThird WorldEnding PovertyExtreme Poverty Author:Roger Moore
“It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.” FirstsEndsLightPoliticalEasyLibertyRightsBearsRegardTyrannyTestimonyBehalfUnworthyDisregardCivil LibertiesInsistence Author:Felix Frankfurter
“Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.” HumansLittlesYoungEasyImaginationHurtEducationWonderMagicUniqueRegardOpeningCosmosEstatesSensitivityOpening UpHuman ImaginationUninspired Author:Norman Cousins
“You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.” RunningEasyMoneyRiskRegardFundamentalsGreedInvestorsNovicesEasy Money Author:Bernard Madoff
“Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.” PeopleWayLooksDoneProblemLightMotivationalWould BeOpportunityEasyDarknessWorstRegardQuittingCandleCursingGrumbling Author:Tony Robbins