Man
(page 16)
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.
Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
Prayer is man's greatest power!
Walking is man's best medicine.
Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.
Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this — no dog exchanges bones with another.
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
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