There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to you former self.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
IT IS SIMPLER TO FIND A WAY TO HEAVEN THAN TO FIND A WAY ON EARTH. HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
CHARLES M. BLOW 1970——-JOURNALIST. “NEW YORK TIMES”
WHAT TOO FEW PEOPLE MENTION WHEN DISCUSSING CRIME IS THE DEGREE TO WHICH CONCENTRATED POVERTY, HOPELESSNESS AND DESPAIR ARE THE CHAMBERMAIDS OF VIOLENCE AND INCIVILITY.
CONCEALMENT MAKES THE SOUL A SWAMP. CONFESSION IS HOW YOU DRAIN IT.
THERE IS NO WRONG TIME TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
YOU don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.
THE ONLY way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.
A LIE IS LIKE A CAT: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.
DIFFERENT IS NOT DEVIANT, no matter what the world may say. You have the moral obligation to love yourself.
NOW YOU HAVE TO DECIDE whether or not you want to be part of the bigotry that is Donald trump. You have to decide whether you want to be part of the sexism and misogyny that is Donald trump.
GREAT LEADERSHIP isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
I CAN STILL TELL YOU THAT JUST BEING YOU IS PERFECTLY FINE.
VOTER APATHY IS A CIVIC ABDICATION.
LOOK AT IT THIS WAY: this administration is taking unprecedented steps to make sure that the government’s secrets remain private while simultaneously invading the privacy of its citizens . . . Many innocents must be violated so that a few guilty people can be stopped. It’s a digital stop-and-frisk.
AN ILLUSTRATION is a visual editorial — it’s just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.
MARILYN vos SAVANT 1986—- “Worlds Smartest Person” IQ 228
TO ACQUIRE knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
BEING DEFEATED is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
SUCCESS IS ACHIEVED by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
AN ERROR BECOMES A MISTAKE WHEN WE REFUSE TO ADMIT IT.
THERE’S plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.
YOU CAN’T BE WISE WITHOUT BEING INTELLIGENT, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.
THE LOWER OUR SELF-ESTEEM, the more we’re attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.
BE SURE TO EXPOSE YOURSELF TO CRITICISM; A FINE POLISH REQUIRES AN ABRASIVE.
THE LENGTH of your education is less important then its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
SUCCESS MAY BE THE ABILITY TO BE HAPPY WITH WHATEVER WE’RE STUCK WITH.
RELATIVELY FEW of us will find the time-or take it-to-live an ever enlarging life.
FEELING IS WHAT YOU GET FOR THINKING THE WAY YOU DO.
AT FIRST, I only laughed at myself. then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I’ve been in a generally good mood ever since.
I BELIEVE YOU BECOME STRONGER EMOTIONALLY BY TAKING LIFE LESS SERIOUSLY.
AN ACT OF JUSTICE closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own.
I’VE NEVER FOUND AN INTERESTING PERSON WITH A FOUL MOUTH.
MY THOUGHTS ARE LIKE WAFFLES — the first few don’t look so good.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL 1833-1899 LAWYER.
THE BIBLE was not written by a woman. Within its leaves there is nothing but humiliation and shame for her.
STRANGE BUT TRUE; those who have loved God most have loved men least.
IGNORANCE IS THE SOIL IN WHICH BELIEF IN MIRACLES GROWS.
THE TRUE CIVILIZATION is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
HAPPINESS is the only good. the time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others happy.
WISHING HAPPINESS TO EVERYONE!