You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. —Ray Bradbury More about this quote Tags: acceptance knowledge rejection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. —Joseph Conrad More about this quote Tags: humanity evil belief men wickedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you have to hide who you really are to the world, you create a shell around yourself over time. A painted on coating of lies. It becomes your shield…and your prison. —Selena Kitt in Grace More about this quote Tags: fear world prison retiring hiding shield Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most effective way to do it, is to do it. —Amelia Earhart More about this quote Tags: doing work effectiveness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is a better teacher than duty. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: love learning teaching duty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: love humor loss laundry chores Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: God humor belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. —Josh Billings More about this quote Tags: power silence argument refutation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. —George Santayana More about this quote Tags: memory effort fanaticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never want to love someone like that, so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that I wouldn’t be able to survive if he left me. —Jean Kwok in Girl in Translation More about this quote Tags: love want Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Instead of bucking your head against a stone wall … sit quietly with hands folded and wait for the wall to crumble. If you're willing to wait an eternity, it may happen in the twinkling of an eye. For walls often give way quicker than the proud spirit which rules us. Don't sit and pray that it will happen! Just sit and watch it happen. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: patience pride eternity waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Tags: action soul sentiment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That's your choice. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: hope freedom change improvement guarantee Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. —Marcus Aurelius More about this quote Tags: politics perfection progress change Plato Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The meeting of a customer and a clerk across the service counter in a store is as significant as two leaders of nations meeting over a conference table in search of peace. If peace and understanding is possible, it must occur in the moment that is present. It can occur only when relationship is real and unconditional. Relationship begins with thoughtless awareness, an openness that sees and hears with humility, and a consideration that has already forgiven all things that the mind might present as a barrier to unity. —Booker Jones More about this quote Tags: awareness forgiveness peace relationship humility business service significance consideration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email