Diminish Quotes

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

I feel like that's how women feel in a way. You can get paranoid because everyone actually is a conspiracy to diminish your power.

Inner darkness, which we call ignorance, is the root of suffering. The more inner light that comes, the more darkness will diminish. This is the only way to achieve salvation or nirvana.

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented by the pollster did not diminish the hostility.

Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.

It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.

As you age, feelings do diminish.

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

Diminish us across the board. They [Russians] do not wish us well.

Mel Gibson is my friend. I love Mel. He's not the person that I hear people are often trying to diminish. Whatever his challenges are in life, he still remains someone I'm very close to.

Diminish the influence of fate

I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

Love, no matter how it's expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn't diminish it.

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.

My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.

Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.

Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.

Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

The returns we read about in the industry sales literature vastly diminish when we move from the theoretical world of market indexes to the real world of actually investing.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.

Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]

Don't diminish yourself in any way. Dare to be all that you are.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.

All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.

The stress of an action diminishes rapidly after that action is performed.

God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.

The abuse of a good does not diminish the good of a good

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly share the truth!

The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations of the ones that have gone before. That's how life works.

I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.