Filial Piety Confucius Quotes & Sayings

Character is,for the most part simply habit become fixed. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of time eating sweets on TV - cake, cupcakes, donuts, and pudding. It's a dream job, but at the same time there will be days where I wake up knowing I will eat 15 desserts! — Gail Simmons

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all. — Jacques Pepin

Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to. — Willem Dafoe

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them. — Confucius

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands. — Diane Kruger

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love. — Confucius

Worry comes from the belief you are powerless. — Robert Anthony

being in love makes people uncertain. — Hiromi Kawakami

Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by them. So we are told to stop, to shut off lines of inquiry, not to find things puzzling nor to seek explanations. This is intellectual suicide. — Simon Blackburn

If we are overly sensitive, we will be quick to anger. More generally, says Seneca, if we coddle ourselves, if we allow ourselves to be corrupted by pleasure, nothing will seem bearable to us, and the reason things will seem unbearable is not because they are hard but because we are soft. — William B. Irvine

It [ME] is one of the most disabling diseases that I care for, far exceeding HIV disease except for the terminal stages. — Daniel L. Peterson

If I've learned anything in the past six months, it's that life is a fickle little bitch and there's not one damn thing I can do to tame her. It's almost laughable, really. — Ashley Herring Blake

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry. — David O. McKay