I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
-Karl Kraus, writer (1874-1936)
History by geography
History is all explained by geography.
-Robert Penn Warren, novelist and poet (1905-1989)
can only be free...
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
-Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (1857-1938)
...how to behave
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
-Billie Holiday, jazz singer and songwriter (1915-1959)
...live with himself
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-Charles Evans Hughes, jurist (1862-1948)
..stories and believe?
Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?
-Scott Turow, author and lawyer (b. 12 Apr 1949)
less boring...
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
-Charles Baudelaire, poet, critic and translator (1821-1867)
..declaration of hope
Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying "no" to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope.
-Amy Goodman, investigative journalist, columnist, and author (b. 13 Apr 1957)
Nature's most beautiful processes..
"To cultivate a garden is to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes."
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
to be a friend..
"If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere."
~ Zig Ziglar
...standization & uniformity
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.
-Arnold Toynbee, historian (1889-1975)
anybody can serve...
"Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
watch the money..
"It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate."
~ Gloria Steinem
Happiness is a perfume
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
fill it to change
"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts your life will start to change."
~ Zig Ziglar
..think and feel
"We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness."
~ Charlie Chaplin
...freshen into smiles
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
~ Washington Irving
..forget and remembers
"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."
~ Ellen Glasgow
Honouring of differences
"Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities."
~ James Fredericks
Help them enjoy...
"We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it."
~ Frank A. Clark
...asked to dance
Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.
-Verna Myers, author and speaker (5 Apr 1960)
most beautiful qualities
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
survive alone...
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
-Maya Angelou, poet (1928-2014)
..may have
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
-Vincent van Gogh, painter (1853-1890)
perpetuated by quotations
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Potential to turn...
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-Leo Buscaglia, author, speaker and professor (1924-1998)
...a secret
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you're keeping.
-Kenneth Tynan, critic and writer (1927-1980)
...saps today
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia
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