Gain Quotes (page 7)

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• war
• manly
• individuation

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. Napolean Hill

• reading
• new
• book

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one. Oliver Goldsmith

• philosophical
• philosopher
• sufficient

...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. Georg C. Lichtenberg

• life
• missing
• letting go

In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go. Lao Tzu

• universe
• author
• greatness

It is true that all authors have tried to make propaganda. The great ones are those who failed, who have gained access, consciously or not, to a deeper and more universal reality. Eugene Ionesco

• wise
• knowledge
• may

Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise. Bram Stoker

• writing
• she
• never

She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. Jeffrey Eugenides

• common
• commoner
• everyone

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained. Jay-Z

• mistake
• understanding
• knowledge

if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them. Jodi Picoult

• religious
• new relationship
• relationship

When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I've been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That's a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we're in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point... R. Buckminster Fuller

• love
• self
• self love

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably. Federico Fellini

• loss
• sometimes
• may

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain. Jane Austen

• power corrupts
• hand
• humanity

Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ... Refuse to participate in evil; insist on taking part in what is healthy, generous, and responsible. Stand up, speak out, and... Edward Abbey

• wisdom
• personality
• may

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it. Idries Shah

• anxiety
• giving
• believe

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep cliff face of happiness in order to reach a wide, high plateau on which we will live out the rest of our lives; we are not reminded that soon after gaining the summit, we will be called down again into fresh lowlands of anxiety and desire. Alain de Botton