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- Nov 07, 2020
Man Quotes
Short lines on character, patience and what it means to be a man.
This is a smaller, general collection of quotes touching on manhood, character and patience. One well-known line uses golf as an example, a test of temperament disguised as a leisure game, to make a wider point about what reveals a man's spirit. For steadier, values-driven lines, see our Good quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
- Adventure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a very difficult man.
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- Nov 07, 2020