Quotes of: Rather Keyword

The basic principle of health, well-being, and the action of healing is the presumption of prior perfection rather than the motivating problem. We must be established in the presumption that Truth is always already the case, and therefore, the perfec...

The Eating Gorilla Comes in Peace: The Transcendental Principle of Life Applied to Diet and the Regenerative Discipline of True Health

The widest cause of secularization may be the steady change of thinking so that there is the expectation that reason and a consideration of cause and effect will help with explanations. Supernatural power began to be removed from explanations of the ...

Humanism: An Introduction

The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they...

I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work

Contemplating the goodness within ourselves is a classical meditation, done to bring light, joy, and rapture to the mind. In contemporary times this practice might be considered rather embarrassing, because so often the emphasis is on all the unfortu...

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard the Honour and moral Character of the Man more than all other Circumstances. Think of no other Greatness but that of ...

Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fight...

Plato

And who cares for imagination? Who does not think it a rather dangerous, senseless attribute, akin to weakness, perhaps partaking of frenzy - a disease rather than a gift of the mind? Probably all think it so but those who possess, or fancy they poss...

Charlotte Bronte

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

City of Ghosts

We cling to the comfortable rather than step out into the possible.

Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.

Cleopatra: A Life

It seems rather prophetic. We were just joking about this the other day." "I know. Fate has annoying timing.

Compromised

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

Courageous

Sometimes a girl needs to be told what a guy feels, rather than trying to decipher the signs.

Dangled Carat

'Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.'

The Dante Club

There was no question to answer. He would rather die with er than live a single day more without her.

Delicious Desires

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

A Doll's House

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

Dark Moon

Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.

A Dish of Orts

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

Elective Affinities

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

The Essence of Christianity