#knowing

Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#gratitude #happiness #inspirational #knowing-oneself #life

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#love #relationships #love

She watches Simon's profile as he drives, concentrating, but he keeps turning to her, and every time he does so, he is smiling. He doesn't seem to care, and she wonders if, actually, he wants to be caught. In some ways she does, because she knows, already, albeit crazily swiftly, that she wants more of this man, that once was never, ever going to be enough. ↗

— Sarah Rayner

#knowing #lust #passion #love

To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#happiness #knowing #knowledge #literature #literature-quotes

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last. ↗

— John Abizaid

#being #business #change #day #door

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise. ↗

— Aeschylus

#man #many #profitable #things #wise

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. ↗

— Alan Alda

#bus #discover #doing #get #hard

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#ego #embarrassment #impotence #knowing #longer

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. ↗

— Aristotle

#certain #conditions #crises #danger #does

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#did #know #knowing #our #progress