Diminish – Page 2

Love, no matter how

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. Erin McCarthy

Admitting your weaknesses does

Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage. Erin Andrews

And I’m hoping that

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. Erika Slezak

If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences … Read more

I have begun to

I have begun to regard everything as more of a process so that the sense of right and wrong diminishes in my psyche. That’s been healthy for me and makes everything so much more fun. If something does not quite work out as expected or planned, I simply look for what did work, what I … Read more

Honer and self sacrifice.

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

The most absurd apology

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill … Read more

As the years pass,

As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name. Emile M. Cioran

Better to be an

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy. Emile M. Cioran

Does our ferocity not

Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish. Emile M. Cioran