Reason Quotes - Page 30

• Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.

  Tecumseh

  Lonely, Morning, Lying

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• There is a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. Don't be quick to judge. Be kind and assume the best.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Judging, Reason Why, Stories

  Twitter post from Mar 17, 2013

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• "Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg."
  
  Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. Someone else will have to decide what is right and what is wrong; perhaps time or history will decide. If there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with the wall, of what value would such works be?

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Eggs, Novelists

  "Always on the Side of the Egg". www.haaretz.com. February 17, 2009.

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• Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything.

  Jim Tressel

  Real, Goal, Purpose

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• Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims - as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force - he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Wish

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.986, Penguin

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• Forgive yourself for what you think you've done or not done. At every moment, you had your reasons for all of your actions and decisions. You've always done the best that you could do. Forgive yourself.

  Doreen Virtue

  Thinking, Decision, Forgiving

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 26, 2011

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• I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn.

  Drew Barrymore

  Believe, Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason

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• It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made of neurons. It's made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation.

  Daniel Dennett

  Giving, Soul, Robots

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• My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.

  Seth Godin

  Inspiration, Favorite Words, Effort

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• Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

  Bell Hooks

  Lying, Acceptance, Knows

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• One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Special, Needs

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fall, People, News

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.37, Seven Stories Press

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• When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Feels

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• The things keeping you back-these embarrassing, boring, stupid obstacles-are the heart of what it is to be human. They’re the whole reason for making and needing art. So you might as well go ahead and begin in whatever way you can right now.

  Miranda July

  Art, Stupid, Might

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• The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  School, Magic, World

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• It is a given that we will all make some mistakes in life. It is a given that you will make inappropriate choices for inappropriate reasons. They will in no way affect your worth. No matter what you say or what you do, nothing can minimize the worth of your being. Your worth is a gift from God.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mistake, Choices, Matter

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 18, 2016

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• Be happy for no reason, like a child.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, No Reason

  "How to Be Happy Like a Child" by Toan Lam, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Fighting is like life. You can do everything to a tee. You can show up and fail. That's no reason to quit.

  Frank Mir

  Fighting, Quitting, Failing

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• In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.... Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged.... Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Citizens, Inquiry

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• In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

  Thomas Paine

  Belief, Deism, United

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• So I won't say I'm lucky. I'm fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.

  Peter Dinklage

  People, Lucky, Enough

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

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• At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results.

  Chuck Yeager

  Moments, Results, Moment Of Truth

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• A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Strong, Self

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• The reason so many people fail to achieve success is because they fail to fail enough times.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Enough Time, Failing

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• Art gives people a reason to be alive.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, People, Giving

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