2099 Quotations Found

Any nation with a great unemployment wave becomes a seedbed for -isms.

Author: Harrison Jones | Subjects: Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy

Love may be sanctified and ennobled by its commitment to the unconditional horizon of perfection, but what makes love real in the human world seems to be our moving, struggling conversation with that wanted horizon rather than any possibility of arrival. The hope for, or the declaration of a purely spiritual, unconditional love is more often a coded desire for immunity and safety, an attempt … [ Read more ]

Author: David Whyte | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Love

Heartbreak is unpreventable; the natural outcome of caring for people and things over which we have no control. Heartbreak begins the moment we are asked to let go but cannot. […] Heartbreak is how we mature; yet we use the word heartbreak as if it only occurs when things have gone wrong: an unrequited love, a shattered dream. […] But heartbreak may be the very … [ Read more ]

Author: David Whyte | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Pain & Suffering, Personal Improvement

Friendship is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in turn. A friend knows our difficulties and shadows and remains in sight, a companion to … [ Read more ]

Author: David Whyte | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subject: Relationships

Either write something worth reading about, or do something worth writing about.

Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Money doesn’t change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that’s all.

Author: Henry Ford | Subjects: Material Possessions, Psychology | Behavior

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Author: Henry Ford | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management

Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow.

Author: Will Rogers | Subject: Economics | Economy

Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, is oft but perseverance in disguise.

Author: Orison Swett Marden | Subjects: Concepts, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement

Money is not wealth. Discretionary time is wealth. You can always make more money. You can’t make more time.

Author: Alan Weiss | Subjects: Material Possessions, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Good & Evil, Love

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possess at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: History, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

It has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a name to the evil without than to locate the terror within.

Author: James Baldwin | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Good & Evil, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

The choice of being miserable is the bargain you strike with yourself to avoid pain.

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subject: Psychology | Behavior

The right thing to do is often obvious. It’s not the choice that’s difficult so much as dealing with what the choice means.

Author: Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subject: Personal Improvement

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

Author: Paulo Coelho | Subjects: Insight, Psychology | Behavior

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Author: Charles Kingsley | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

What is an exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another.

Author: Charles Dickens | Subjects: Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Facts | Bias, Information, Intelligence | Knowledge

What we’re taught when we grow up is that our outcome is 100% correlated to our effort. If I study hard for a test or work hard on a project, I’m going to get a better grade than if I don’t try. So I’ve always just assumed that when things aren’t going well, I just need to work harder. It’s ingrained a lot of habits, … [ Read more ]

Author: Ayo Omojola | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement