Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIf we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn’t otherwise accomplish.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
CLARENCE DARROW -
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
QUINTILIAN -
There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player – were talking sixth grade here – that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.
ADAM ROSS -
Being in the nude isn’t a disgrace unless you’re being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too!
BETTIE PAGE -
At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I’ve made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.
RINGO STARR -
Whatever we accomplish belongs to our entire group, a tribute to our combined effort.
WALT DISNEY -
Don’t let the tamed ones tell you how to live.
JONNY OX -
In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It’s a different day.
BILL JOHNSON -
Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD -
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH -
Maybe I met you not for being together always but to know that there is someone like you in this world. – Grateful.
SHIWANSHI PANDEY -
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
JACK KORNFIELD -
Let me listen to me and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.
ERIC CLAPTON -
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
LORD ACTON -
I’m a radio nerd. I’ve loved radio since I was a kid. I’m a huge Howard Stern fan.
BRAD LISTI -
Love is the pursuit of the whole.
PLATO -
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
JUVENAL -
Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.
VIRAT KOHLI -
Part of your mission in life then must be to share your gifts with as many people as possible. That means being willing to play big.
T. HARV EKER -
We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution.
HANNAH ARENDT -
The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree – those to me, are the scents of the holidays.
BLAKE LIVELY -
One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
AGNES MARTIN -
That willpower has to kick in.
ADRIAN PETERSON -
You have to name it to claim it
PHIL MCGRAW -
Man doesn’t dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That’s where my faith lies.
RAY LEWIS