Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Jesse Jackson
Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.
Source Unknown
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Lord Chesterfield
Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Source Unknown
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.
Kurt Vonnegut
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
-Benjamin Franklin
It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
-Mark Twain
Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
Thought this one sounded familiar:
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“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”
― Dr. Seuss
Also a Brad Paisley song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93niv-kijAY
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Be alert to give service -- what counts most in life is what we do for others.
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert A. Heinlein
I admire the wisdom of this author. I read his book many times. This is a quote from here.
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
WISDOM TO START THE DAY....
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk
To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J.K. Rowling
R.I.P Chris.
What is reality but a concept unique to each of us? Can anything be classed as real when our perceptions differ greatly on so many things? Just because we see something a particular way does not make it so.
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