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«The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.»
Author: Stephen King (Writer) | Keywords: ashamed, brought, by size, diminish, feelings, hardest, head, no more, seem, shrank, shrink, shrinks, shrink from, shrunk, size, sized, sizes, size up, sizing, timeless
«More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.»
Author: Thomas Traherne (Mystic, Poet) | Keywords: diminish, increases, lighten, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up
«The sunlight flashes off your windshield,and when I look up into the small, posted mirror,I watch you diminish--my echo, my twin--and vanish around a curve in this whipof a road we can't help traveling together.»
Author: William Collins | Keywords: curve, curved, curving, diminish, echo, flashed, flashes, flashing, in a flash, look up, mirror, posted, posting, sunlight, traveling, twin, vanish, watch, whip, whipping, windshield
«There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Happiness | Keywords: augment, augmented, augmenting, augments, decide, diminish, easier, either, For each, happens, in two ways, result, ways
«Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish»
Author: John Maxwell (Author, motivational speaker) | Keywords: chances, diminish, negative, tattoo, tattooed, tattoos, term
«The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them»
Author: Stephen King (Writer) | About: Communication, Language, Words | Keywords: diminish, hardest
«It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: basest, diminish, kingdoms
«Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day»
Author: German Proverb | About: Commitment, Promise | Keywords: day by day, diminish, full moon, promises
«Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Gifts, Time | Keywords: ADD, add to, diminish, immaterial, influence, slow, slow down, speed, speed up, valuable
«Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: diminish, intensified, intensifies, intensify
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