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Benevolent Quotes
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Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don’t put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze. (Benevolent Quotes)
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say ‘him’ rather than ‘her.’ Maybe it’s because of my generation, but I don’t like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. (Benevolent Quotes)
Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it. Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time. We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures. (Benevolent Quotes)
For the most part, my characters don’t talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself. (Benevolent Quotes)
I like joking around and being a little mischievous. Once an audience or even a group of friends realizes that you’re being benevolent about it, then they’re along for the ride. (Benevolent Quotes)
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays (Benevolent Quotes)
Why can’t Google, which likes to see itself as a ‘Don’t Be Evil’ benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories? (Benevolent Quotes)
We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people. (Benevolent Quotes)
We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there’s another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing. (Benevolent Quotes)
One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions than the latter, are under fewer restraints also from taking undue advantage of the indiscretions of each other (Benevolent Quotes)
Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it (Benevolent Quotes)
The happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way (Benevolent Quotes)
Spiritual joy is devotion, it’s like a virus you know? It’s a benevolent virus, but it spreads. It’s infectious. Ram Dass was like a mentor in those days (Benevolent Quotes)
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself (Benevolent Quotes)
I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties (Benevolent Quotes)
A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes (Benevolent Quotes)
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance (Benevolent Quotes)
Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old; it is custom which hinders the husband from perceiving the change (Benevolent Quotes)
There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In this discovery a benevolent force shines spontaneously from your presence towards all beings, and this light cannot help but illuminate the world (Benevolent Quotes)
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him (Benevolent Quotes)
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature (Benevolent Quotes)
Myth: There’s conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy (Benevolent Quotes)
You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness (Benevolent Quotes)
We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there’s another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing (Benevolent Quotes)
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face (Benevolent Quotes)
Clearly, children’s charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs (Benevolent Quotes)
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection (Benevolent Quotes)
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency... At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, it's influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world (Benevolent Quotes)
We know who is benevolent by quite other means than the amount of subscription to soup societies. It is only low merits that can be enumerated (Benevolent Quotes)
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain (Benevolent Quotes)