We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we create by our thoughts about the pain. Fear, anger, guilt, loneliness and helplessness are all mental and emotional responses that can intensify pain.
To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.
It is easier to diminish God than it is to enlarge one's heart.
Whatever outrageous dream keeps flowing across your mind, allow it to live inside you. Don't deflect it, diminish it, invalidate it or come up with some excuse for why it can't happen. This will allow it to explain itself to you - why it's there, what it means, and what if anything you should do about it.
We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole Community. We insist that the institutions of the European Community are managed so that they increase the liberty of the individual throughout the continent. These institutions must not be permitted to dwindle into bureaucracy. Whenever they fail to enlarge freedom the institutions should be criticised and the balance restored.
When one’s mind is made up. . . fear diminishes.
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
As you age, feelings do diminish.
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. . . . His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.
It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.
Don't diminish yourself in any way. Dare to be all that you are.
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.
The abuse of a good does not diminish the good of a good
The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.
Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.
