NELSON MANDELLA 1918-2013. “Long Walk to Freedom”
YOU CAN NEVER HAVE AN IMPACT ON SOCIETY IF YOU HAVE NOT CHANGED YOURSELF.
IT is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.
THERE can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.
NO ONE IS BORN HATING ANOTHER PERSON because of the color of his skin, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
ELIZABETH GILBERT. 1969— “Eat, Pray. Love”
I’VE never sen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.
TRUE POWER comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.
YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO SELECT YOUR OWN THOUGHTS just the same way you select your clothes every day. this is a power you can cultivate. if you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. that’s the only thing you should be trying to control.
NELSON MANDELA
THERE IS NO FUTURE WITHOUT FORGIVENESS.
EXERCISE is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.
THE PAST IS A RICH RESOURCE on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.
DO NOT JUDGE ME BY MY SUCCESS, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
I LEARNED THAT COURAGE was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that’s fear.
IT ONLY SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL IT’S DONE.
LIVING isn’t just about doing for yourself, but what you do for others as well.
IT IS NOT WHERE YOU START but how high you aim that matters for success.
WHAT COUNTS IN LIFE is not the mere fact that we have lived. it is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
EDUCATION is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
IF YOU WANT THE COOPERATION OF HUMANS around you, you must make them feel they are important — and you do that by being genuine and humble,
MAKE YOUR CHOICES REFLECT YOUR HOPES, NOT YOUR FEARS.
AS I WALKED out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.
OVERCOMING POVERTY is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.
EVERYONE CAN RISE above their circumstances, and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
I LIKE FRIENDS who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
LIKE SLAVERY and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
GREAT ANGER AND VIOLENCE CAN NEVER BUILD A NATION.
A GOOD HEAD AND A GOOD HEART ARE ALWAYS A FORMIDABLE COMBINATION.
TREAD SOFTLY, BREATHE PEACEFULLY, LAUGH HYSTERICALLY.
LEARN TO KNOW YOURSELF . . . to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1937-2005 “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F” “The Great Shark Hunt”
LIFE has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
INSANITY IS A LEGAL TERM. CRAZY IS AN ART FORM.
THE MAIN PROBLEM in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy — then go back to the office 7 sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man who can turn on a crowd & still keep his head straight — assuming it was straight in the first place.
WHEN the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
I LEARNED A LONG TIME AGO that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
EVERY MAN IS THE SUM TOTAL OF HIS REACTIONS TO EXPERIENCE. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man/woman, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.
HUMAN BEINGS are the only creatures on earth that claim a
God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
HOPE RISES and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
REMEMBER HOW PRECIOUS YOU ARE!