Being genuine
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Acceptance, Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?
Topics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Fool, Friendship, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
The wise man neither rejects life nor fears death… just as he does not necessarily choose the largest amount of food, but, rather, the pleasantest food, so he prefers not the longest time, but the most pleasant.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)
Author: EpicurusTopics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
What will happen to me if that which this desire seeks is achieved, and what if it is not?
Author: EpicurusTopics: Being genuine, Being happy, Enriched, Famous, Fool, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Person, Personal belief, Personal boundaries, Personal Desire, Personal freedom, Wisdom
Consciousness is nature’s nightmare.
Author: Emil CioranTopics: Being fortunate, Being genuine, Being human, Being humble, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Naturally, Nature, Nature of love, Nightmare, Nights, Suffer, Suffering
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions.
Topics: Another, Another self, Being genuine, Being human, Commerce, Commit, Greatest Gift, Greatness, Inflicted, Loss, Loss and gain, Loss of faith, Page, Pain, Painful, Painful duty, Suffer, Suffering
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.
Topics: Alternative, Always, Being fortunate, Being genuine, Being happy, Being human, Endured, Outstanding., Outward, Significant, Silence, Silent, Suffer, Suffering
I feel bad only when I play badly. Fortunately, that happens rarely.
Topics: Bad, Badly, Being fortunate, Being genuine, Feel, Feeling good, Happening, Rarely, Talent, Talented player
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Being free, Being genuine, Being human, Human, Human activities, Human Activity, Human behavior, Organizations, Organized-religion, Religion, Religious Differences
My personality is humongous
Author: Cardi BTopics: Acceptance, Being free, Being genuine, Being human, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Funds, Funny, Life, Personal Values
I’ve never really taken myself too serious. That’s everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I’ve always said what I’ve felt, said what I thought was right, but I’ve always had a comedic bone.
Author: Ice CubeTopics: Authenticity, Being genuine, Comedic bone, Famous, Inspirational, Originality
I think you’ve got to be yourself, and you’ve got to be real and you’ve got to be honest.
Author: Ice CubeTopics: Authentic self, Being genuine, Being true, Famous, Honesty, Inspirational, Real
Knowin’ your vibes be fake and crazy. That’s why me, I keep it the most real.
Author: Lil DurkTopics: Authenticity, Being genuine, Being true, Real, Sincere
I won’t let anyone dull my shine.
Author: Lil DurkTopics: Being genuine, Famous, Self-Confidence, Self-Worth
Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens
Author: Andy WarholTopics: Behaviour, Being, Being genuine, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Interesting, Life, Meaningful
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Author: Andrew CarnegieTopics: Acceptance, Being genuine, Being human, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Humankind, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship
Author: Amelia EarhartTopics: Ability, Acceptance, Behaviour, Being genuine, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Home, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Understandable
To be honest, I’m not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Being genuine, Being true, Honest, Self-Doubt
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her
Author: Alexander PopeTopics: Acceptance, Being, Being genuine, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Friendship, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Women
I’m absolutely clean. I’ve never tried anything. That’s not a lie!
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Being genuine, Being true, Clean, Famous, Inspirational, Motivational
I cheated a lot, because I just couldn’t sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Being genuine, Being true, Cheat, Comparision, Confession, Experiences, Famous
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Author: T. S. EliotTopics: Being genuine, Communication, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Genuine Intention, Life, Meaningful, Miscommunication, Poet, Poetic, Poetry, Positive
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.
Author: Albert EinsteinTopics: Being genuine, Big, Complex, Complexities, Experiences, Famous, Fool, Genius, Gentle, Inspirational, Intelligence, Intelligent, Intelligent Man, Meaningful, Opposite, Positive
No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, YOU are beautiful.
Author: Michelle ObamaTopics: Acceptance, Actions, Adaptability, Beautiful, Beauty, Being genuine, Being true, Character, Clear-Minded, Creativity, Emotion, Express, Facts, Feeling, Future, Journey
It is not known to many people that my name happens to be Artist
Author: A Boogie wit da HoodieTopics: AIM, Artist, Being genuine, Best, Capabilities, Famous, Feelings, Life
We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
Author: Michelle ObamaTopics: Accessory, Adaptability, Affection, Alone, Away, Being genuine, Being true, Care, Clear-Minded, Emotion, Feeling, Feelings, Journey