The thing about surviving something truly tragic is that it changes your expectations forever. You make do with very little. You're grateful for crumbs. You make the best of small mercies. You endure large trials. You understand that life owes you nothing. You expect nothing, and when something wonderful happens, you don't trust it. —Katy Regnery More about this quote Tags: gratitude expectations survival trust tragedy mercy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to her one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong—and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way too late in the game. —Emily Giffin in Baby Proof More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up. —David Shore More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing. —Evan Esar More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor. —Horace More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A loafer always has the correct time. —Kin Hubbard More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. —E. M. Forster More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To say that we are all equally important seems a redundancy, and yet how often do any of us act as if it were true? —Jean Vanier More about this quote Tags: importance redundancy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which . . . wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough — a modest living — and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities. —Walt Whitman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beyond the quest for financial security and personal comfort, what, if anything, are we committed to? —Nathan McCall More about this quote Tags: comfort security Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do? What a waste, what a senseless waste! —Ralph Ellison More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn't been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. —Barack Obama More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The biggest start-up successes — from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg — were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed. —Eric Reis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To do good, blood must circulate. Money must circulate, too. Money must be distributed throughout the body politic, not be concentrated in the pockets of a few. . . . A maximum wage linked to a decent minimum wage would help every family and every community live healthy lives — and restore balance to a nation ravaged by unbridled greed. —Jeff Vogel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email