Men Quotes - Page 580

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.

I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.

The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.

I find myself trying to explain more, and explain the perspective of my mentality, or the mentality I'm trying to convey.

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

The love of God is not generic. God looks with love upon every man and woman, calling them by name.

But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.

I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.

There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it’s a brutal world, man.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus.

Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.