Of all the will toward the ideal in mankind only a small part can manifest itself in public action. All the rest of this force must be content with small and obscure deeds. The sum of these, however, is a thousand times stronger than the acts of those who receive wide public recognition. The latter, compared to the former, are like the foam on the … [ Read more ]
Author: Albert Schweitzer | Subjects: Character, Personal Improvement
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Author: Stephen Covey | Subjects: Communication, Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior, Trust
[I am] someone who represents a very complex country which insists on being simple-minded. And simplicity […] is taken to be a great American virtue, along with sincerity. […] And as long as you’re sincere in what you say, you haven’t got to know what you’re talking about. These are the American virtues—two of them anyway. One of the results of this is that immaturity … [ Read more ]
Author: James Baldwin | Subjects: America, Life & Society
The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong
nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.
Author: Ecclesiastes 9:11 | Subjects: Perception | Observation, Wisdom
The true measure of a man’s character is how well he treats those people who cannot possibly help him.
Author: Unknown | Subject: Character
A feeling once so beautiful should die with dignity.
Author: Matraca Berg | Subject: Love
The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love—where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?
Author: Kawabata Yasunari | Subjects: Love, Miscellaneous
I believe one can divide men into two principal categories: those who suffer the tormenting desire for unity and those who do not. Between these two kinds an abyss – the ‘unitary’ is the troubled; the other is the peaceful.
Author: George Sarton | Subject: Psychology | Behavior
Intimacy is a game-free relationship, since goals are not ulterior. Intimacy is made possible in a situation where the absence of fear makes possible the fullness of perception, where beauty can be seen apart from the utility, where possessiveness is made unnecessary by the reality of possession.
Authors: M.D., Thomas A. Harris | Subjects: Love, Relationships
What folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
Author: John Howe | Subjects: Life & Society, Perception | Observation
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Author: Benjamin Franklin | Subject: Perception | Observation
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Author: Indira Gandhi | Subjects: Gratitude, Wisdom
A society can be measured not by the knowledge that it acquires, but by the values it brings to bear on that knowledge.
Author: Susanna Waterman | Subjects: Culture, Life & Society, Sociology | Anthropology, Values
I think it was Balzac who said in love there is always one who is hurt and one who is bored.
Author: George MacBeth | Source: The Katana (pg 163) | Subjects: Love, Relationships
The price of not being frightened is trust. And what a word that is! It’s more than confidence, more than security; it doesn’t belong to ignorance, or for that matter, to knowledge either. It is simply the ability to move out of the “I’m the center of all things” and to let something or someone take over.
Author: Fynn | Subjects: Psychology | Behavior, Trust
Is a ten-headed monster more frightening than an idea?
Author: Fynn | Subjects: Fear, Psychology | Behavior, Thought | Inquiry
It isn’t the devil in humanity that makes man a lonely creature, it’s his God-likeness. It’s the fullness of the Good that can’t get out or can’t find its proper “other place” that makes for loneliness.
Author: Fynn | Subject: Psychology | Behavior
You have to have a muddle in your head before you can really know what rest is.
Author: Fynn | Subject: Psychology | Behavior
In the dark you have to describe yourself. In the daylight other people describe you.
Author: Fynn | Subject: Perception | Observation
In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But ’tis my heart that loves what they despise.
Author: William Shakespeare | Subjects: Love, Poetry