Quotes About Condition

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to the hazards of fortune.

Suffering is part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.

Suffering is a part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.

when any action in our day-to-day life is motivated by some expectant result, or by what only appears to be a real condition or circumstance in our life, that expectant result is very likely to be dashed to pieces.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Einstein had a mild form of echolalia, causing him to repeat phrases to himself, two or three times, especially if they amused him.

An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience.

Our capital is underutilized now, but that will happen periodically. It's a painful condition to be in — but not as painful as doing something stupid. (I speak from experience.)

This road will be new because you will see a given emotion as a choice rather than a condition of life.

suffering is a part of the human condition that no one escapes in their lifetime, and that it may be more despairing for some than others.

Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.

Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul. I have tried to restrain its inroads on me, but there are odd corners of my character that have been harmed

By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states, each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature… (p52)

His condition shocked her, needless to say, but she had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon, and within an hour she'd taken it in her stride.

Consciousness can be a state of mind, but it is not a condition of mind

To the men and women who keep a sacred appointment on Sunday morning. Bewildered by seductive voices, nursing wounds life has inflicted upon them, anxious about matters that do not matter. Yet they come to listen for a clear word from God that speaks to their condition. And to those who minister to them now and those who will do so in the future.

For Judaism, sin is a deed, not a condition.

Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage.

The problem that will doubtless interest future historians is not so much the presence, in the twentieth century, of mass political alienation, but the passivity with which the citizenry accepted that condition. It may well become known as the century of sophisticated deference.

To feel forever inadequate: Is this simply the universal condition of being a father?

My health is very much improved.

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.