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Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. (Nhat Hanh)
Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money. View quote
Gregory Bateson
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. View quote
William Cowper
If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw. View quote
James Herriot
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. View quote
Alan Watts
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. View quote
E. B. White
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. (John Steinbeck)
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. View quote
Plutarch
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. View quote
Jim Morrison
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. View quote
Will Rogers
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. View quote
Pearl Bailey
When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. View quote
Audre Lorde
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. View quote
Charles Babbage
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. View quote
Lewis Mumford
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. View quote
Max Beerbohm
The less routine the more life. (Amos Bronson Alcott)
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. View quote
Ann Landers
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. View quote
Herman Melville