A Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau
American - Author
July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction.

Meister Eckhart

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

Donald Rumsfeld

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Julian Barnes

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.

J. C. Ryle

As politics is not subtraction but addition, those who share views and ideas need to join forces and they have to cooperate with political opponents even after they win an election.

Park Won-soon

The process of change is made up of subtraction and addition. Taking something off and then puttin something on.

Creflo A. Dollar

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

Charles Dickens

Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

Amit Ray

Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?

Julian Barnes

Contentment is not by addition but by subtraction: seeking to add a thing will not bring contentment. Instead, subtracting from your desires until you are satisfied only with Christ brings contentment.

Jeremiah Burroughs

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

Meister Eckhart

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

Michael Pollan

In high school I wore No. 8, in college I wore No. 5, and five plus three is eight and five minus three is two, you know? Addition and subtraction.

Jameis Winston

Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

George Eliot

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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