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Anger diminishes our power to distinguish right from wrong, and this ability is one of the highest human attributes. If it is lost, we are lost. — Dalai Lama XIV

[The loss- of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base. — Kenneth E. Boulding

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. — Hugh Jackman

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel. — Jude Bijou

Time may be defined as " dimension governed by activity." Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time. — Moutasem Algharati

But the longer a man grows in his own darkness, the more his outer form diminishes
pg 95 — Milan Kundera

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones. — Holly Black

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue. — William James

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The truth is that we live in a world that diminishes possibilities. — Lionel Suggs

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine

Self-love diminishes no one. It blesses others. — Annette Vaillancourt

Faith diminishes fears. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value. — Phylicia Rashad

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. — Rosa Parks

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes. — Thomas Carlyle

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.' — Rickie Lee Jones

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness. — Brian L. Weiss

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank. — Blaise Pascal

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil. — Miguel De Unamuno

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer. — Peter Drucker

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life. — R.A. Salvatore

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it. — Elie Wiesel

When one's mind is made up ... fear diminishes. — Rosa Parks

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. — May Sarton

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything. — Peter Heller

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Maybe someday I'll have that, bit it won't be with Ridge, and knowing that diminishes whatever ray of hope shone through the storm of my week. — Colleen Hoover

Since every death diminishes us a little,
we grieve - not so much for the death
as for ourselves. — Lynn Caine

someone fundamentally diminishes our shared humanity. I'm not even sure I was conscious of that behavior — Brene Brown

I once heard that when fear takes possession of the heart of a person, it diminishes them — Chigozie Obioma

Absence diminishes minor passions and inflames great ones, as the wind douses a candle and fans a fire. La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680 OBSERVANCE — Robert Greene

The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes. — Andy Stanley

As love increases, prudence diminishes. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them. — Tod Machover

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear. — Jeffrey Fry

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. — Gore Vidal

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee

War diminishes both civil and economic rights. — P. J. O'Rourke

Any time we look at our Maker with love, our importance in our own eyes diminishes, and we are filled with awe and humility and love for others. — Julian Of Norwich

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. — Marya Mannes

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows. — Robert Bresson

Remember that a sincere apology never diminishes the apologizer. — David Mitchell

Any woman's death diminishes me. — Adrienne Rich

Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth. — James Cook

But the larger a man grows in his own inner darkness, the more his outer form diminishes. — Milan Kundera

I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation. — William Boyd

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power. — John Ruskin

At the dawn of light, the darkness diminishes. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Live so fully and so brilliantly that your pain diminishes in your aliveness. — Bryant McGill

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. — William Blackstone

The stress of an action diminishes rapidly after that action is performed. — Marshall Sylver

We do not have forever to say whatever. For with every single day that goes by, the odds of our opinion(s) being read or heard diminishes. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Neither divine grace nor natural knowledge ever diminishes freedom. — Rene Descartes

With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture. — Alexander Von Humboldt

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded. — Aeschylus

The darkness diminishes by dawn of light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Secrets have power," Widget begins. "And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. — Erin Morgenstern

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good. — John Shelby Spong

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes. — Henry Cloud

All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes. — Mark Doty

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging. — Plutarch

Infidelity reduces and diminishes, leaving nothing where you once had a sense of self-worth. — Sue Grafton

Violence wounds the body and it wounds the soul. Of the predator. Of the prey. Of the mourners. Of collective humanity. It diminishes us all. — Kathy Reichs

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science. — Tim Hunt

Despair wishes their hope diminishes. — Sherina Gandia

Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon. — Publilius Syrus

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes. — Philibert Joseph Roux

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. — John Donne

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power. — Will Smith

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago. — Michael Dirda

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you. — Ann Cotton

The car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making — Marya Mannes

That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies. — Caroline Myss

Draw, as much and as often as you can. When drawing lies fallow, the skill diminishes. — Gene Black

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it. — William James

Violence diminishes our humanity. — Coretta Scott King

Singing diminishes sorrow. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy. — Ramsey Clark

as technology expands the reach of mind, a comprehension of what it actually is and ontologically designs diminishes. — Tony Fry

Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us - and our beloveds - healthier. — Sharon Salzberg

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures. — Andrew Michael Ramsay

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place. — Eve Ensler

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established — George Soros

What stress really does, though, is deplete willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions. — Roy F. Baumeister

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre. — Junot Diaz

Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song. — Vera Nazarian

Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved with mankind. — John Donne

Through right nutrition and exercise. If you don't equate the body with who you are, when beauty fades, vigor diminishes, — Eckhart Tolle

Gratitude magnifies the sweet parts of life and diminishes the painful ones. — Yuval Levin

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. — Friedrich Schiller

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. — Jose Raul Capablanca

A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought. — Max Beerbohm

Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self. — Robert Muller

Each man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. Therefore, ask not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. - John Donne — Meg Cabot

Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all. — Marcia Muller