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High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city.
Author: Theophile GautierTopics: Alone, Art, City, External, Famous, Meaningful
All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means – for example, wealth and status – with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Activities, Being happy, Confused, Example, External, Famous, Focus, Good Life, Happy, Human Beings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Misguided belief, People, Positive, Seek, Seems, Status, Virtuous, Wealth
A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it
Author: EpictetusTopics: Adorn, City, Dwell, External, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Things, Virtue
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Dismayed, Disturb, Events, External, Famous, Inspirational, Interpretation, Life, Meaningful, Significance, Things
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Essence, External, Famous, Happiness, Inspirational, Life, Live, Man, Meaningful, Philosophy, Possible, Things
There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Acceptance, Account, Commit, External, Famous, God, Happiness, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mind, Thine, Tranquility
Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Acceptance, External, Famous, Good, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Seek
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Attracted, Beyond, Calm, Contrary, Deep, Element, External, Famous, Fiery, Impetuous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Passion, qualities, Strong, True, True Love
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Author: Confucius
Topics: Ability, Able, External, External Circumstances, Gravity, Human soul, Kind, Kindness, Soul, Sound, Things, Thinking, Times, Times of difficulty
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: External, Famous, Grace, Useless
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Arises, External, Reason, Second
Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Existence, External, Grace, Operation
The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Experiences, External, Famous, Meaningful, Pursuit, Thinking
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonTopics: External, Famous, Nothing, Power
If then the Earth also performs other motions, they must necessarily be like those which are similarly apparent in many external bodies in which we find an annual orbit.
Author: Nicolaus CopernicusTopics: Earth, External, Famous, Many, Meaningful
The external world is only a manifestation of the activities of the mind itself, and the mind grasps it as an external world simply because of its habit of discrimination and false-reasoning. The disciple must get into the habit of looking at things truthfully.
Author: BuddhaTopics: External, Habit, Manifest, Mankind, Manner, Self-Discipline, Simple, Truthful, Workings, World
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
Author: Blaise PascalTopics: External, God, Happiness, Ourselves, United