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1 " Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. "
2 " If there was one advantage of the numerous lifetimes he’d been forced to endure, it was undoubtedly knowledge. "
3 " There is one advantage to realizing that you're never going to get it right: you do begin to stop expecting everyone else to get it right too, which makes for less frustration when other people turn out to be just as human as you are. "
― , Buddhism of the Heart: Reflections on Shin Buddhism and Inner Togetherness
4 " Well what?” said Peter. He knew but had learned that if there was one advantage to the male sex it was that your obtuseness would never be underestimated; if you pretend you don’t know what the problem is, half the time it just goes away. "
― Brian McGreevy , Hemlock Grove
5 " We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us! "
― John Cowper Powys ,
6 " There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure. "
7 " Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age. "
8 " A sage has one advantage he is immortal. If this is not his century many others will be. "
9 " The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. "
10 " To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied. "
