Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 206
The trouble is you think you have time.
The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.
William Shawn
I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.
Afeni Shakur
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
If you're still doing what mommy and daddy said for you to do (go to school, get a job, and save money), you're losing.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.
An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it.
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Thucydides
I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
