For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
One person's success is another's first step, only you can rate your achievements and find peace within yourself.
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own.
They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees.
For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one's self? Why is that not the first thing we look for?
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.
Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.
I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.
Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.
Everywhere on our planet one hand greases another. Often it's done with a bloated face, wearing a serpent's smile. M.Sullivan
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool.
An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.
