Diminish Quotes

• The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

  Stephen King

  Important, Ashamed, Hardest

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Atheist

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any woman's death diminishes me.

  Adrienne Rich

  1974 Poems: Selected and New,'FromanOldHouse inAmerica,16'. See Donne 281:85.

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• The most important things are the hardest to say

  Stephen King

  I Love You, Valentines Day, Communication

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

  Octavio Paz

  Views, Community, Culture

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• In daily practice, reflect on the benefits of love, compassion and kindness, then reflect on the disadvantages of anger. Such continuous contemplation, the growing appreciation of love, has the effect of reducing our inclination towards hatred and increasing our respect for love. By this means even anger can be diminished.

  Dalai Lama

  Appreciation, Inspirational Love, Kindness

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• No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Color, Doe, Tasks

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.87, Modern Library

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• Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice as to the kind and scale of difference they make. If they choose to make too small a difference, they diminish their humanity. If they choose to make too great a difference, they diminish nature, and narrow their subsequent choices; ultimately, they diminish or destroy themselves. Nature, then, is not only our source but also our limit and measure.

  Wendell Berry

  Differences, Choices, Humanity

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• Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

  Dalai Lama

  Meditation, Technique, May

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• Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.

  Paulo Coelho

  Joy, Problem, Grows

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 01, 2009

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• The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other.

  Harriet Martineau

  Past, Dwelling, Perspective

  Harriet Martineau (1836). “Philosophical essays. Essays on the art of thinking. Sabbath musings. Moral essays. Parables. Poetry”, p.221

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• Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Men, Sorrow

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• Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.

  Dave Ramsey

  Dishonesty, Wealth, Increase

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2013

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• Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

  Audre Lorde

  Accepting, Used

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.146, Crossing Press

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• Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Pain, Add, Able

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• But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Soul, Mediocrity

  Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.174, Random House

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• To describe happiness is to diminish it.

  Stendhal

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Stendhal (1955). “The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]”

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• Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

  Joss Whedon

  Character, Power, Doe

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• The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

  Norman Mailer

  Passion, Understanding, Curiosity

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• You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

  Pope Paul VI

  Numbers, Order, Bread

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

  Bernard Berenson

  Beauty, Appreciation, Appreciate

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.

  Vera Nazarian

  Song, Voice, Unity

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• I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Law, People

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• A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  Fanny Burney

  Ambition, Expectations, Mind

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Cute, Stills

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