When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
The less routine the more life.
I’ll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Less is more.
The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.
The more one judges, the less one loves.
Attitudes are more important than facts.
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that’ll be me.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.
Nothing shines out more than a bride in her most natural state.
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal… I’ve decided that I’m going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
More idiots should just shut their mouths.
People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
There’s nothing more romantic than Italian food.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
We can’t have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That’s crazy. You can’t have more types of fake news than real news. That’s allowing public deception to go unchecked. That’s crazy.
The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you’ve got to be different and even more better.
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
