Beneficial Quotes - Page 11

• I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look for what is positive and beneficial for my fellow citizens.

  Antoni Tapies

  Generosity, Desire, Needs

  "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.

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• When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it.

  Idries Shah

  Prayer, Mean, Emotional

  Idries Shah (1991). “Seeker After Truth”, p.22, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Independent, Past

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• Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.

  Bruce Lee

  Adversity, Thinking, Prosperity

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.98, Tuttle Publishing

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• As beings who cannot know the outcome of any particular action, it is difficult for us to act in a way that will be necessarily beneficial to another, or necessarily detrimental.

  Andre Alexis

  Outcomes, Way, Action

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe that we photographers don't benefit very much with answers from other photographers. What is more beneficial is to ask questions of ourselves and see what thoughts float out from within.

  Michael Kenna

  Believe, Answers, Benefits

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• There are only three kinds of people. LEADERS. Those who take charge, build, inspire, and create. FOLLOWERS. Those who support leaders and work to achieve mutually beneficial goals.... [and] DESTROYERS. Destroyers cannot find it within themselves to follow anyone, their hatred and insecurity is too pure to see strength in any OTHER being. The utterly lack the ability to inspire or create, so they do the only thing left to them -- they tear down all they come in contact with.

  Rick Remender

  Goal, People, Hatred

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• Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

  Ken Wilber

  Meditation, Soul, Excellence

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  People, Decision, Sound

  "Giffords: Too Soon to Settle on a Plan for Health Care". The Arizona Daily Star, August 11, 2009.

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• Technological change is beneficial only when other jobs replace the ones lost.

  Robert Kuttner

  Jobs, Technological Change, Lost

  The Guardian Weekly, August 08, 1993.

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• The free flow of people across borders is not to be confused with the free flow of goods across borders. Free trade is a positive-sum game. Contrary to illegal immigration, it is always invited, consensual and hence mutually beneficial to the parties involved.

  Ilana Mercer

  Confused, Party, Games

  "We are the World". www.wnd.com. March 31, 2006.

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• Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Trust In God, Salvation, Almighty

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love. Willingness to compromise with others ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make living happy and fruitful. Certain modes of behaviour have been laid down and proved beneficial by centuries of practice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Practice, Tolerance, Down And

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• Wine is the most noble and beneficial of alcoholic drinks. Wine is for the sedentary whose work is thinking. Natural wines have been used without drunkenness by the millions of human beings for ages. They supply with iron, tannin and vitamins.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Wine, Thinking, Iron

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• Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Men, Advice, Authorship

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.73

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• When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Men, Action

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• If a technology is beneficial, everyone should have it. If it is not, no one should have it.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Technology, Should Have, Ifs

  "We Are Neither Obstinate nor Gullible". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 10, 2009.

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• By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.

  John Evelyn

  Food, Cooking, Quality

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• We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Believe, Thinking, May

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.231, Broadview Press

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• In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Running, Philosophy, Errors

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The liberties of England cannot but subsist so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, ... but also from all secret machinations, which may sap and undermine it.

  William Blackstone

  Long, Secret, Important

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• Laugh often. Starting your day with a good laugh, or at least a big smile, is as beneficial to your health as it is to your mood. Scientific studies at Northwestern University and Fordham University concluded that laughter benefits the heart, lungs, stomach and other organs. It relaxes tensions, changes attitude, and increases the body's natural painkillers. And it has no harmful side effects.

  Harvey Mackay

  Attitude, Laughter, Heart

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• The great Initiates in the spirit world have vast and imposing plans for the musical future. What is this plan? It is to use music as an occult medium through which to develop altered states of consciousness, psychic abilities, and contact with the spirit world. Music in the future is to be used to bring people into yet closer touch with the devils; they will be enabled to partake of the beneficial influence of these beings while attending concerts at which by the appropriate type of sound they have been invoked.

  John Todd

  Psychics, People, Musical

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• I love travel. There's nothing more beneficial than getting to travel, to see different cultures, to see different environments and expose your children to that.

  Teri Hatcher

  Children, Different, Culture

  "Teri Hatcher Talks PLANES, Why Her Character Is a Role Model for Girls, Her Hopes for PLANES 2". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 5, 2013.

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• Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pleasant

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