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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Love is the common denominator that unites all people, whatever religion they are.

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success.

The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. …The real enemy then is humanity itself.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.

The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings and soar with them above a common bound.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’ sake.

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon – if I can. I seek opportunity – not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed… It is my heritage…to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done.

Believe nothing,No matter where you read it,Or who has said it,Not even if I have said it,Unless it agrees with your own reasonAnd your own common sense.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are.

People share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that’s when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.

It is undeniable that every human being is entitled to living space, daily bread, and the protection of the law as a common birthright; these are fundamentals and should not be handed out as an act of charity.