Satish Kumar Quotes

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

Satish Kumar

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• For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

  

  Quintilian
  • Man
  • Dumb
  • Neighbor

• One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Humanity
  • Liberty

• We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • May
  • Gifts

• However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Man
  • Now
  • Gifts

• I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Country
  • Hands

• Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Point
  • Gifts
  • Shock

• Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

  

  Quintilian
  • Rules
  • Gifts
  • Useless

• It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Forgive
  • Gifts

• If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

  

  Idries Shah
  • Money
  • Power
  • Happy

• It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

  

  Linda Blair
  • People
  • Why
  • Mankind

• One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Life
  • Long
  • History

• It is up to each of us to search for and build upon the gifts which God has given. We must remember that each of us is made in the image of God, that there are no unimportant persons. Everyone matters to God and to his fellowmen.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Up
  • God
  • Remember

• I celebrate Hanukkah. Anything with gifts is good.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Good
  • Gifts
  • Hanukkah

• Enemies gifts are no gifts and do no good.

  

  Sophocles
  • Good
  • Enemies
  • Gifts

• The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

  

  Sophocles
  • Reason
  • Gods
  • Gifts

• I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

  

  Euripides
  • Health
  • Hunger
  • Gifts

• We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Never
  • Pay
  • Gifts

• Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than external advantages in some other career where the impulse to make use of them remains weak or non-existent. The work that one enjoys is the greatest source of happiness and vitality in life.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Death
  • Gifts
  • Obstacle

• I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'

  

  Adam DeVine
  • God
  • Movie
  • Want

• Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Road
  • Healthy
  • Good Fortune

• Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Window
  • Bed
  • Locks

• Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.

  

  George Brown, Baron George-Brown
  • Drunk
  • Category
  • Statesmen

• We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Gifts