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«If we come to the point of retaining a sense of a proportion in the midst of all the smallest as well as in the most profound of human emotions, we shall also discover that at the center of every experience is the laughter of God»
«Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Commitment,
Compromise
| Keywords:
compromise, ending, retaining, The Sacrifice
«Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.»
«Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.»
«Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
condition, integrity, oneself, outside, retaining, separateness, somebody, Somebody to Love, under, union
«LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.»
«If any human being earnestly desires to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative know»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
demonstrative, discoveries, disputant, disputants, earnestly, hostile, push on, retaining
«In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
apply, in the end, practically, retain, retaining, studies, The End
«Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.»
«Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
Lisa, Mona, Mona Lisa, reputation, retained, retaining, The Mona Lisa, went
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