Sufficient Quotes - Page 9

• We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Reality, Numbers, Reason

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• I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.

  Lisa Kleypas

  People, Giving, Causes

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). “The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Knowing, Finals, Defeat

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• You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Crazy, Self, People

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• I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.

  Francoise Sagan

  Eye, Kissing, Thinking

  Francoise Sagan (1956). “Certain Smile”

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• Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life. And a good life does not mean just good food, good clothes, good shelter. These are not sufficient. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion, without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their rights and human dignity.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Brother, Buddhist

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• I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.

  Howard Zinn

  Book, Opportunity, People

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.203, Beacon Press

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• To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.

  Ayn Rand

  I Love You, Spiritual, Independent

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• The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Struggle, Way, Sole

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• I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

  Bram Stoker

  Feelings, World, Empty

  Bram Stoker (2015). “Dracula”, p.67, Booklassic

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• It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance.

  Golda Meir

  Growing Up, Important, Want

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• If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

  C. S. Lewis

  Narnia, Proof, Kingship

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.150, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Animal, Self, Ego

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing — the characters, the story, the words, the themes — and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don’t warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don’t fall apart.

  Veronica Roth

  Falling In Love, Writing, Character

  Amazon.com Q&A with Author, www.amazon.com.

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• I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Lying, Fall, Simple

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Fall of the House of Usher”, p.2, Booklassic

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• To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Racing, Brain, Pieces

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.789, Wordsworth Editions

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• No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.

  Andre Gide

  Book, Heart, Leaving

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• I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.

  Veronica Roth

  Self, Order, Difficult

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.70, HarperCollins UK

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• Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Real, Self, Handsome

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because their might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.

  Veronica Roth

  Dark, Gun, Light

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.68, Harper Collins

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• May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Blessed, Grateful

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.58, Modern Library

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• Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time.

  Henry Miller

  Distance, Space, Needs

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

  Brian Greene

  Pathways, Care, Realizing

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.162, Vintage

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• Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk.

  Julian Barnes

  Pain, Taken, Drunk

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.97, Random House

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• His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me. 

  Freya North

  Real, Men, Thinking

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