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We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Life Human-Nature Psychology Self
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
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We should not pretend to understand
the world only by the intellect;
we apprehend it just as much by feeling.
Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is,
at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest,
also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
Perspective:
Do you always look at life from the same point-of-view?
Consider viewing a situation as another might view it.
Look from behind, underneath, from the distant heavens.
View the situation as someone of a different religion,
race, or nationality might view it.
Pretend you are an alien from a distant galaxy -
that should be good for a laugh.
Troubles only appear troubling to those close to them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't seek God in temples.
He is close to you.
He is within you.
Only you should surrender to Him
and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives
and not in what he is able to receive.
- Albert Einstein
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
Knowledge of what is, does not open
the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein
Consider being more acceptive of your partner's behaviors.
It is unlikely that they are intentionally aggravating you.
Almost always, they are just doing what they think they should do.
Try setting aside your own rules for how they should behave,
and adopt a live-and-let-live attitude.
Your relationship will become stronger and happier if you do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything.
It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.
Hill and house should live together
each the happier for the other.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man should look for what is,
and not for what he thinks should be.
- Albert Einstein
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
There is NOTHING that I "must",
"have to", or "should" do today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
NO ONE has been granted the authority to tell me
how my life should be lived.
I answer only to myself and to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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