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Meister Eckhart Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Meister Eckhart

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

Every creature is a word of God.
- Meister Eckhart

Related topics: Nature

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart

Creature Quotes and Sayings

Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau

I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn

Better Quotes and Sayings

Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb

At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln

How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill

Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage -
they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung

The "stories" we choose to tell about our past
are never what a video camera would have recorded.
We can tell a sad story or a happy story,
and neither story is either
more accurate or "better" than the other story.
The difference is that one story causes us to suffer,
while the other brings us joy. I choose joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss

Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart

Better late than never.
- Proverb

Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus

Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela

During his training, a baseball player strives
to make each swing better than the last.
The repetition of a faulty swing would be worse than useless.
It would ingrain bad habits.
The same is true of emotional responses.
If we allow ourselves to continue to have the same angry responses,
we just entrench our anger habit.
But if we strive - through consciousness, visualization, and coaching -
to moderate our anger response,
over time, we can train ourselves to respond
to events as we choose - without anger.
You can't magically be free from anger tomorrow,
but you can put yourself on your own training program
that will reduce the frequency and intensity
of your anger response day by day, year by year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank

Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch

How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity,
for in prosperity we forget God.
- Dwight L. Moody

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to have your head in the clouds,
and know where you are...
than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them,
and think that you are in paradise.
- Henry David Thoreau

When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher

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