A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity. —Jimmy Carter More about this quote Tags: strength weakness USA boasting insecurity restraint Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. —Stephen Covey More about this quote Tags: priorities schedule Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More about this quote Tags: action thinking goals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted, offering grace to any who look deeply. —Richard Rohr in The Universal Christ More about this quote Tags: God safety grace revelation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers. —Shakuntala Devi More about this quote Tags: math numbers everywhere Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to. —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: future past perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn? —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: life learning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches. —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: words communication fighting kisses punches Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today. —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: reading books infinity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most. —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: kindness need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: dreams reason Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's human to make mistakes and some of us are more human than others. —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: humanity humor mistakes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's been a lifelong problem of mine that those I've been closest to are the ones I've had the least influence on. My parents, my sister, my wife, even my cat — or maybe I should say especially my cat — have never really taken me seriously. That may help to explain why I finished up making a career of peddling my thoughts to the world in general. At least the world in general doesn't automatically dismiss anything coming from me, that is, so long as I say it in a neat epigram of 17 words or less. —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: career parents influence closeness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children. —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: maturity knowledge children Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan. —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: reality planning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email