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The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.


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A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
PIR VILAYAT KHAN Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedie...
FRANCOIS FENELON Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedie...
FRANCOIS DE SALIGNAC On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is...
SIGMUND FREUD A poor man is nothing but just like a wheel without a tyre in his own bicycle.
VIKRANT PARSAI I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in ...
J.K. ROWLING Nothing is perfect. It's not even good yet. But maybe.
KATJA MILLAY Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. H...
FRANCINE RIVERS I wanted it to be big, ... Not about a person or a career but about the time. ... I wanted to use a ...
JANE LEAVY What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is t...
NEIL GAIMAN I do not know which makes a man more conservative -- to know nothing but the present, or nothing but...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but t...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but th...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but ...
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES Clearly, there is something the market is responding to. But there is nothing specific that I've hea...
ANITA MANGELS Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who re...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read...
ALBERT EINSTEIN After a gasp, his head went forward and she did nothing, nothing for five minutes.
ROBERT NELSON Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but...
SYDNEY SMITH The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part ...
THOMAS OVERBURY A smart man uses his strengths to the best of his abilities, but a true genius creates his weaknesse...
CARLOSLARA Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
PLAUTUS What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?
NOLAN RYAN Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows w...
MARKUS ZUSAK Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.
TERRY PRATCHETT How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To be Perfect,Simply think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE Nothing threatens a corrupt system like a free mind.
SUZY KASSEM Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
PARCELSUS Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.
ERALDO BANOVAC It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
ROBERT BOLT O, sir,' murmured Sheila, still on her knees, 'please forgive me.'

'Forgive you! 0, la, l...
A.E. COPPARD Nothing can be perfect... even the analysis of the human behavior. - If you think they can be perfec...
DEYTH BANGER There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything ...
RACHEL ROY A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but o...
BARUCH SPINOZA There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There is nothing peaceful like a peace of mind.
EPHDAN The rich that hesitates to help the poor is nothing but a fool,because the funds he uses to finance ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this worl...
SARAH ORNE JEWETT He turned and quickly removed his pants. My eyes grew huge, since he wore nothing underneath. I star...
ALISHA BASSO Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, y...
WILLIAM PENN There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY It's time to get on with the burial. It's sad and it's done and it's not going to change. Oldsmobile...
GARY WIGHT Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISON A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows ...
GERTRUDE STEIN Poland awaits radical changes, but not revolutionary changes. My brother uses the term moral revolut...
LECH KACZYNSKI To punish drug takers is like a drunk striking the bleary face it sees in the mirror. Drugs will not...
BRIAN INGLIS I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
S. I. HAYAKAWA It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this worl...
SARAH ORNE JEWETT Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
WILL ROGERS He uses his sources as a drunkard uses lampposts; not to light him upon his way, but to dissimulate ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
AUBERON HERBERT One does not plead for a dead man, because the lawyer of a dead man is nothing but a man who remembe...
ROBERT BADINTER What did one mirror see in the other?
Nothing.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.
ELIZABETH GEORGE I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti...
JODI PICOULT Stress is nothing but a mind doubting God’s grace.
DR HITESH C SHETH The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring...
MARY BALOGH It's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. Sometimes it takes time for the words to become more than word...
ELIE WIESEL To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No suffering befalls the man who calls nothing his own.
THE DHAMAPADA Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf
BRENT MUSBURGER I've come to the conclusion that a man without a cause is nothing. He has nothing to look forward to...
HAZEL B. WEST Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside ...
DONALD MILLER ‘The Weather Man’ is like a mirror,
GORE VERBINSKI A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth ca...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every da...
MICHAEL ENDE A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W. C. FIELDS By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN This family is going through not just a single incident but a nightmare that's never ending. A fine ...
ED FOX I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Fa...
RALPH ABERNATHY There was nothing going on in this place for it seemed like eternity. Everything just went blank in ...
ERIC ZASTOUPIL Never, never, never, never. Nothing, never, never, never. Not now. Not ever.
FLORENTINO PEREZ To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.
ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
KAREL CAPEK There's nothing I want more for Jerome than to see him win the Super Bowl here in his hometown. It w...
GLADYS BETTIS The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees...
ISRAEL BAAL SHEM A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
ALEXANDER SMITH A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
JANE AUSTEN A poor man but with a rich idea,is nothing but a rich man.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) For a man like this to tape him without his knowledge and use it this way is nothing short of betray...
LUC LAVOIE History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living m...
FRIEDRICH ENGELS Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude
from achieving his goal.
Nothing o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.
SARA SHERIDAN There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy...
THEODORE DALRYMPLE Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.
TIM WU We did well today. Nothing is perfect, but we have things to build off of.
DAMION MCINTOSH By his father he is English, by his mother he is American - to my mind the blend which makes the per...
MARK TWAIN It's nothing we're too unhappy about. Basically, the joint is irritated. We'd like more time of cour...
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ZHUANGZI Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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ZHUANGZI Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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ZHUANGZI I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly d...
ZHUANGZI I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
ZHUANGZI Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
ZHUANGZI We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no per...
ZHUANGZI So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the tra...
ZHUANGZI You have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, sp...
ZHUANGZI He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he who knows he is confused is not in the worst c...
ZHUANGZI All attempts to create something admirable are the weapons of evil. You may think you are practising...
ZHUANGZI Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting ch...
ZHUANGZI Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are...
ZHUANGZI Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech can...
ZHUANGZI I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who ...
ZHUANGZI Moreover, I have heard that those who are fond of praising men to their faces are also fond of damni...
ZHUANGZI Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you ar...
ZHUANGZI Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; t...
ZHUANGZI Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carri...
ZHUANGZI All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!
ZHUANGZI When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attac...
ZHUANGZI Let your heart be at peace.
Watch the turmoil of beings
but contemplate their return.
ZHUANGZI You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't disc...
ZHUANGZI Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things th...
ZHUANGZI Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.
ZHUANGZI Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
ZHUANGZI Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt that i was a butterfly. flitting around and enjoying myself....
ZHUANGZI Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.
ZHUANGZI Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling ...
ZHUANGZI Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.
ZHUANGZI A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well. A summer i...
ZHUANGZI During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on...
ZHUANGZI We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
ZHUANGZI The sound of water says what I think.
ZHUANGZI To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.
ZHUANGZI The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be empe...
ZHUANGZI He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.
ZHUANGZI The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.
ZHUANGZI Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purp...
ZHUANGZI Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.
ZHUANGZI If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was...
ZHUANGZI Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endl...
ZHUANGZI The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The r...
ZHUANGZI But a gentleman may embrace a doctrine without necessarily wearing the garb that goes with it, and h...
ZHUANGZI Don't go in and hide; don't come out and shine; stand stock-still in the middle.
ZHUANGZI Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words h...
ZHUANGZI A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little ...
ZHUANGZI I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where th...
ZHUANGZI In the northern darkness there is a fish and his name is K'un. The K'un is so huge I don't know how ...
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