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The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.
Speaker: ConfuciusSource: OnlinePosted: 10 Feb 2009 at 10:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“There is but one quality necessary for the perfect understanding of character, one quality that, if man have it, he may dare to judge—that is, omniscience. Most people study character as a proofreader pores over a great poem: his ears are dulled to the majesty and music of the lines, his eyes are darkened to the magic imagination of the genius of the author; that proofreader is busy watching for an inverted comma, a misspacing, or a wrong font letter. He has an eye trained for the imperfections, the weaknesses. …
“We do not need to judge nearly so much as we think we do. This is the age of snap judgments. … [We need] the courage to say, ‘I don’t know. I am waiting further evidence. I must hear both sides of the question.’ It is this suspended judgment that is the supreme form of charity”
Speaker: William George JordanSource: “The Supreme Charity of the World,” The Kingship of Self-Control [n.d.], 27–30Posted: 27 Feb 2011 at 12:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Speaker: Arthur P. StanleyPosted: 19 Apr 2011 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Then we can be like, worker #5 quit browsing Facebook!”
“Don’t give them an identifier, they are replaceable, it’ll get too complicated, just name their seats”OCCUPANT, Cubicle #6, You’re Fired!
Speaker: John RockefellerSource: when rearranging desks into rows, but John and I are in special desks and yelling at workersPosted: 21 Nov 2012 at 7:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellSource: http://zenhabits.net/own/Posted: 27 Jun 2011 at 6:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No one seems to have thought of the fact that if life is absurd, being a brilliant success has no greater value than being a failure. It’s just more comfortable. And even then: I think lucidity gives your success a bitter taste, whereas mediocrity still leaves hope for something.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 23 Jun 2009 at 6:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Don’t teach pigs to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
Speaker: AnonymousSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If someone were to apply exquisitely beautiful colors at random he would find less pleasure than if he had outlined an image in black and white.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To gain and forever hold onto a testimony of Gospel truths is worth whatever price in spiritual preparation we man be required to pay.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 5:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t know why we all hang on to something we know we’re better off letting go. It’s like were scared to lose what we really don’t even have. Some of us say we’d rather have something than nothing at all, but the truth is….to have something halfway is harder than not having it at all.
Speaker: AnonomyousSource: myhotcomments.comPosted: 16 Jun 2009 at 11:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Speaker: Sir Richard SteelePosted: 07 Oct 2008 at 8:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The waters of life can be very deep, and we are not shallow because we struggle with them.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I sat alone, on a boulder that was larger and flatter than most, and I smoked a cigarette. I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
How easy [it is] to love someone [God] who so singularly loves us!
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When a mind is impressionable and has none too firm a hold on what is right, it must be rescued from the crowd; it is so easy for it to go over to the majority.
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Knowing the power of Necessity is irresistible.” Prometheus
Speaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Khaderbhai once said that every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret. It mightn’t be true of everyone, but it was true enough about me. The little good that I’ve done in the world has always dragged behind it a shadow of dark inspiration. What I do know now, and didn’t know then is that, in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we’ve done have run their course, it’s the good we did that can save us. But then, when salvation speaks, the secrets we kept, and the motives we concealed, creep from their shadows. They cling to us, those dark motives for our good deeds. Redemption’s climb is steepest if the good we did is soiled with secret shame.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 9:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I’ll reset your face
Speaker: IvanSource: mad at John for something about A&WPosted: 15 Aug 2012 at 1:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!