Noble Quotes - Page 31

• O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Men, Compassion

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• Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go.

  C. S. Lewis

  Being In Love, Love Is, Feelings

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.97, HarperCollins UK

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• No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happy Life, Reflection, Roots

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• Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development.

  Donald Bradman

  Games, Development, Proud

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.

  Gautama Buddha

  Past, Views, Effort

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• Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suffering, Unions, Aging

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• This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Good Friend, Path

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• Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a noble and almost divine quality, it may also happen that while you practice it, you will encounter someone so grateful that he will make up for all the others' ingratitude.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Grateful, Practice, People

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• Leaders select noble objectives and pursue them with such intensity that others join them. ... The greatest of all leaders from this perspective was Jesus Christ. ....May your choices be so powerful and magnetic that you'll draw people toward life (Duet. 30:19, ...therefore choose life.-) rather than death, blessing rather than cursing.

  John Ashcroft

  Jesus, Powerful, Blessing

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• It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.

  Emily Dickinson

  Crazy, Thinking, Wish

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• The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Men, Noble Man

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.664, Simon and Schuster

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• Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes.

  Tony Blair

  Heart, People, May

  "Blair Steps Down, Takes Up Mideast Peace". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 27, 2007.

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• I'm gonna build me a boat with these two hands, it'll be a fair curve from a noble plan.

  Guy Clark

  Curves, Hands, Two

  Song: Boats To Build, 1992

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• The (campaign) ads all have the same tone - the voice is hushed and amazed when talking about The Enemy, as if you should worry how this amoral, power-mad, extremist puppy-strangler clawed his way out of hell and landed in your district. And the voice is happy and relieved when talking about The Most Noble Candidate, as though he's Santa, Will Rogers and Lincoln all rolled into one.

  James Lileks

  Talking, Voice, Mad

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• The International Criminal Court, like most international institutions, is a wonderful idea. A noble idea. All it needs to work is planetary government, worldwide democracy and the triumph of reason over tribal loyalties, political doctrines and individual ambition. In other words, it requires that we all live in the world described by the "Star Trek" television shows.

  James Lileks

  Loyalty, Stars, Ambition

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• Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim at a many-sided perfection; Christianity gave him some vision of divine love and charity; Buddhism has shown him a noble way to be wiser, gentler, purer, Judaism and Islam how to be religiously faithful in action and zealously devoted to God; Hinduism has opened to him the largest and profoundest spiritual possibilities.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Men

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo (1989). “The Supramental Manifestation, and Other Writings”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Noble be man,
  Helpful and good!
  For that alone
  Sets him apart
  From every other creature
  On earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Earth, Helpful

  "Das Gottliche" (1783)

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• The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

  Don DeLillo

  Beautiful, Mind, Genius

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

  Richard Wagner

  Race, Humanity, Enemy

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• In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

  John Mulaney

  Comedy, Planning, Cases

  "Interview: Comedian John Mulaney". Interview with Katherine Coplen, www.nuvo.net. April 16, 2015.

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• In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws they are admitting are somehow noble, or dysfunctional in an overly edgy, aesthetically pleasing way.

  Leslie Jamison

  Real, Perfect, Admitting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and misleading, and actually dangerous. And the narrative that emerges when you spend time in the South - places likes Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana - is that we have always been a noble, wonderful, glorious region of the country, with wonderful, noble, glorious people doing wonderful, noble, glorious things. And there's great pride in the Alabamians of the nineteenth century.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Believe, Pride

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance - anything you can find, strolling the aisles of a Borders or a Barnes & Noble, I can bring you many comic books representing each genre.

  Michael Uslan

  War, Book, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

  Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

  Appreciation, Real, Doctors

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• The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.

  Heidi Julavits

  Suffering, Purpose, Belief

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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