A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.
Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.