Quotes About Diminishment

Un atribut al lucrurilor infernale e irealitatea, un atribut ce pare s? mic?oreze spaimele pe care le provoac?, dar poate c? le spore?te.

Thus, Sabbath is a mighty antidote to an economy of depletion and diminishment, because it entails participation in a community that does not believe that human well-being and worth are established by endless productivity.

A velhice também faz isso: de repente todas as pessoas começam a se dirigir a você no diminutivo: calmantezinho, remedinho, incomodozinho. Como se o diminutivo minimizasse os problemas da idade.

Is despair wrong? Isn't it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses indurate. Both go mouldy.

After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses indurate. Both go mouldy.

Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It's not a mere speeding up, however much our lifestyles and technologies have accelerated the rate at which we attempt to do things. It's more of a diminishment of anything that isn't happening right now—and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.

The ego is always on guard against any kind of perceived diminishment. Automatic ego-repair mechanisms come into effect to restore the mental form of "me." When someone blames or criticizes me, that to the ego is a diminishment of self, and it will immediately attempt to repair its diminished sense of self through self-justification, defense, or blaming.

After all, diminishment seemed to be the order of the day. Wouldn't you think the spirit, unshackled at last from so many of the body's youthful imperatives and bolstered by the wisdom of experience, would finally become ascendant? Wasn't memory, that bully and oppressor, supposed to become soft and spongy?

When the powerful are made weak, when they are revealed to be human, to have hearts, their diminishment is nothing short of terrifying.

Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists.

But what was endurance and shared diminishment if not devotion?

Apparently we'd been richer than we thought, to suffer such continual diminishment and still be alive.

I suppose we couldn't realize, or could realize but couldn't accept, that the logic of business is not a logic in that sense. It's not only a narrow consideration of profits and losses, but a larger logic of, well, appetite. To buy something is to assert oneself, and to sell it, for whatever reason, is to collaborate in one's own diminishment.

You start comparing people, and ultimately, somebody feels diminished.

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse and less alive. Her life seemed so small and crumpled you could shoot it through a straw like a spitball.

Our invitation is to look deeper than we do, to intuit and honor what so often lies beneath a surface of denial, anger and diminishment, grace pulsing to break through.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?

I was crying for the vast imbalance, the heart that had been lost, the rejection of the earth and body, the oppression and diminishment of things considered feminine. It was a suffering with, a despair I felt on behalf of something much larger than myself.

Love itself compensates for any diminishment.

When people go at war they cheapen things.

Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.