Quotes About Measure

The Celts certainly have it in a wonderful measure.

We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Porque aqui você precisa de calar a sua sabedoria para sobreviver. Conhece a diferença entre o sábio branco e o sábio preto? A sabedoria do branco mede-se pela pressa com que responde. Entre nós o mais sábio é aquele que mais demora a responder. Alguns são tão sábios que nunca respondem.

Pleasure and shame. Shame and pleasure. These were the world's currencies. And it paid out both in equal measure.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

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Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel. —Johannes Kepler

If it takes night to make day, pain to know pleasure, black to make white, then doesn't it stand to reason that the depth of our friendships could be measured by the quality of our enemies?

Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti died on 17 February 1564. "Your greatness is measured by your horizons

At the end of the day, the best measure of the humanity of any society is the life and happiness of its children. We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Once you exceed the measure, there is no limit. This is the major problem with overthinking. Things are out of your control.

This pattern—God intending to live among his people, being unable to because of their rebellion, but coming back in grace to do so at last—is, in a measure, the story of the whole Old Testament.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

In any case, if recognition arising from proximate circumstances based upon fleeting criteria constitutes the sole measure of our personal significance, recognition will be both mercurial and insufficient.

The vibratory correlate in the subject is not the entire transformation of the sentiment communicated. The gift transmitted to another is like the divine measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, so that after the five thousand are fed from the five loaves and two fish, twelve baskets full are left over.

You couldn't educate hate out of people who needed someone less than themselves, someone they could point at and measure their lives by. They

Wisdom consists in being moderate not out of horror of excess, but out of love for the limit.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.