Average Person Quotes - Page 9

• Within you there are thousands of rings of luminosity, bands, and each one is a universe of perception. In the average person's lifetime, they might just open up two or three, maybe four of those bands.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Average, Two

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• I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?

  Margaret Culkin Banning

  Girl, Average, Decision

  Margaret Culkin Banning (1936). “Letters to Susan”

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• The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

  Joel Salatin

  Responsibility, Average, Should

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• Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

  Pablo Picasso

  Average, Energy, Dozen

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• People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh If you gathered up all the fearful thoughts that exist in the mind of the average person, looked at them objectively, and tried to decide just how much good they provided that person, you would see that not some but all fearful thoughts are useless. They do no good. Zero. They interfere with dreams, hopes, desire and progress.

  Richard Carlson

  Letting Go, Dream, Zero

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