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CURIOSITY QUOTES

CURIOSITY QUOTES

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
― Albert Einstein

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
― Samuel Johnson

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
― William Arthur Ward

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
― Oscar Wilde

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”
― Laurence Sterne

“It’s not a silly question if you can’t answer it.”
― Jostein Gaarder

“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.”
― Holly Black

“The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one’s bridges because you’re never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.”
― Saul D. Alinsky

“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
― Blaise Pascal

“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”
― Henry James

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”
― Aaron Swartz

“I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“… what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.”
― Norton Juster

“I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn’t hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”
― Homer Hickam

“Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed.”
I grinned. “Then I daresay it’s good I’m a woman.”
― Susan Dennard

“Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Her grandmother had once told her that one of life’s best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish — to just ask the question.”
― Melissa Senate

“A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.”
― Isak Dinesen

“I’m fat because I’m greedy, and if my mind is fat it’s because I’m curious.”
― Stephen Fry

“I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.”
― Michael J Fox

“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.”
― Michael J Fox

“Learning is by nature curiosity… prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.”
― Philo

“but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.”
― Gloria Steinem

“A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.”
― Umberto Eco

“You ask a lot of questions, don’t you?”
“My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.”
― Cassandra Clare

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
― Anatole France

“I’m always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.”
― Jenny Han

“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. ”
― Arnold Edinborough

“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.”
― Leo Rosten

“These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-
Jacala’s mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.Linus Pauling”
― Linus Pauling

“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead.”
― Susan Sontag

“Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.”
― Roy Bennett

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious,and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
― Walt Disney

“Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.”
― John Cage

“Me and my insatiable curiosity. If there’s any justice in the world, I was a very good cat in a past life.”
― Rhi Etzweiler

“Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it”
― Alain de Botton

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RIGHTEOUSNESS QUOTES

RIGHTEOUSNESS QUOTES

“The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.”
― Glen Cook

“I’m alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I’m right.”
― John Grisham

“To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.”
― Criss Jami

“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?”
― C.S. Lewis

“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!”
― Ezra Taft Benson

“God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.”
― Criss Jami

“Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.”
― John Bradshaw

“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.”
― Adrian Rogers

“A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.”
― Confucius

“Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.”
― Sri Aurobindo

“Better be a happy insincere than a troubled righteous, who complains about the unjust world all the time.”
― Abhaidev

“Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.”
― Clive Barker

“That’s the trouble with you preachers,” he said. “You’ve all got too good to believe in anything,” and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.”
― Flannery O’Connor

“The righteous do not always do right, but their souls remain pure.”
― J.R. Ward

“Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority”
― François Du Toit

“Righteousness is the truth revealed and working in you.”
― Sherry K. White

“Even righteousness is an ambiguous thing.”
― Nadia Hashimi

“Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims”
― Gregory David Roberts

“If you are still alive, time is now, reject sin, seek righteousness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A man is meant to sacrifice many things for a woman, save his VIP: his Verity, Integrity, and Probity.”
― Criss Jami

“The reaction of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”
― J.I. Packer

“The person who finds that simple flaw, or mistake you made, then broadcast it. It’s their search for validation, at your expense. That’s the one thing missing in their life. Their self centered judgement will be met with themselves being judged. In Jesus name, amen.”
― Ron Baratono

“Lies are oxygen to the wicked as truth is to the righteous.”
― Joan Ambu

“A nation can be born in a day. The day righteousness is granted access and corruption is banned.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“The sin-ridden heart does not fear God but fears man, and when saying it loves men, it loves sin.”
― Criss Jami

“Laws are insufficient to endow a nation with righteousness.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“Life has its own light to reflect upon itself…sooner or later it tends to come back for the righteous people, even if it’s gone for a long time.”
― Munia Khan

“I don’t like righteousness, I don’t. To my ears, righteousness sounds like the chatter made by birds in cages when the birds of the skies fly by.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Respond only to the righteous criticism from righteous people in a righteous way.”
― Dido Stargaze

“There’s more rewards in righteously leading the crowd, than recklessly pleasing it.”
― T.F. Hodge

“There’s more powerful rewards in righteously leading the crowd, than recklessly pleasing it.”
― T.F. Hodge

“In God’s household, we have solidarity with one another in suffering, which reveals our true hope for the fruit of righteousness.”
― Aimee Byrd

“The righteousness will not disappear if you hide it the spirit will feel it and all the bonds will shout.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Those who are walking in the righteousness of Christ will be strengthened by persecution and fire, not destroyed. Fire reveals what cannot be destroyed.”
― T.F. Tenney

“The righteous are rarely kind and the kind are rarely righteous.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The road of righteousness is narrow that leads to life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Only righteous path leads us to the right way”
― Munia Khan

“Sometimes you stand in a difficult dilemma: are the people around you too righteous or too naive? Perhaps naivety is simply sincere righteousness without a social mask.”
― Elmar Hussein

“Christ is my righteousness. I am neither less righteous for my ill deservings nor more righteous for my good deservings, for Christ is my righteousness, and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
― John Bunyan

“A man’s righteousness shall be his reward.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Whoever desire life must travel on the road of righteousness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Start the day with PRAISE,
Live the rest with RIGHTEOUS DEEDS
and ends them with THANKS-GIVING”
― Bradley B. Dalina

“Without any of us saying a word, righteousness will come from Jesus Christ.”
― Ron Baratono

“Religion without righteousness of Faith is vain hope.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Christ embraced me with all my sin and guilt that I may embrace him in all his righteousness.”
― Frederick S. Leahy

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COMPASSION QUOTES [BLOG#12]

COMPASSION QUOTES

“Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.”
― Amit Ray

“Have patience with people; you need people to have patience with you.”
― Germany Kent

“Opportunities to share love and compassion are all around us. Its going to take an army of compassionate people to heal our world. How will you show yours?”
― Renae A. Sauter

“Inner light shines from love and compassion and faith. It illuminates and warms a world that, for many people, can be dark and lonely and confusing.”
― Steve Goodier

“Animals have so much to teach us. The sad reality is, unfortunately, most humans destroy or kill what they do not know, understand or value. That is how we are as a species.”
― June Stoyer

“Making others happy can give us happiness.”
― Avijeet Das

“Always be a Gentleman. Do not dominate or offend anyone. We are all changing and evolving each moment of our life. Be kind and graceful in all your dealing with others.”
― Avijeet Das

“The strength of a family lies not just in blood ties, but in the shared nexus of compassion and support.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“The true measure of a smart city lies not in its technological advancements, but in the love and compassion of its inhabitants.”
― Yvonne Padmos

“In a world obsessed with status, let our compassion and empathy define us.”
― Henry Johnson Jr

“If you have a problem with someone’s race, sexual orientation, politics or religious beliefs, you have a problem.”
― Rob Liano

“Leaning on others is a beautiful act of self-compassion.”
― Sally Clarke

“My brethren, be compassionate; behold how much suffering there is around you.”
― Victor Hugo

“You may never know how even a little kind gesture from your end can create a massive impact on someone’s life.”
― Hiral Nagda

“A sound of distress anywhere is calling for my attention”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Kindness and compassion are powerful forces to help inspire, heal, and transform the world.”
― Germany Kent

“You may be the last thread of hope keeping someone alive.
Always be compassionate, you never know whose life depend on the choices you make.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“Coffee is a companion who is compassionate to make us compulsive to chill out.”
― Srikanth Mahankali

“The most important thing that makes a strong person a moral person is his compassionate, merciful and kind behaviour towards those who are much weaker than himself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“being compassionate, you awaken the vulnerable side”
― Garry James

“Compassion is Love In Action!”
― Jeremy Riden

“In Covid Pandemic, I have learned a new language to show compassion to the pandemic citizens of lost world.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“Just so you know, you can be a boss type of lady, confident, classy, and compassionate towards others all at the same time.”
― Germany Kent

“If your thought doesn’t open the gates of kindness, it isn’t going to take you anywhere.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Forgiveness doesn’t have to be when they are sorry but when you show compassion to those who don’t deserve it.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“There is only life, and each moment worth living. There is only Love, and the joy in its giving.”
― Laura Jaworski

“The links of human compassion create a beautiful unbreakable bond.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson

“You’ve got to share what you’ve got to get back what you’ve lost”
― Tim Arnold

“If we create kindness in ourselves and spread it everywhere, then I’m sure we are going to get the most valuable thing – Love”
― Sana

“Humanity’s greatest strength is it’s ability to foster group compassion.”
― Jeremy Aldana

“We are all children of the angels so create your own special avenue to help encourage love for others.”
― Cinda Swalley

“A little attention, a little kindness, a little thoughtfulness are worth more than all the wealth in the world.”
― Avijeet Das

“Love is not just something that happens. Love is what one decides to offer to someone.”
― Abhaidev

“There are those who believe that showing off is the coolest thing on earth and the rest of us who live a life of sharing is caring.”
― DON SANTO

“Wildlife in the world can only be protected by the love of compassionate hearts in the world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Compassion is the new wealth.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree

“Loving-kindness always point in the direction of truthful,wise,compassionate,understanding and forgiving actions.”
― Celeste Hoeden

“I tend the growing light of compassion for all sentient beings.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree

“The deeper you feel the pain of others, the more human you are!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you are blessed with a soul that loves every living being, whether it be human, animal or plant, then you are truly blessed!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Every dusk had the compassion for my fruitless traveler, to not to fail until i grab the dawn’s dewy flower! a little joy i found now is like warming my heart in that relief fire.”
― Nithin Purple

“Compassion is the driving force which will
drive the world.”
― Syed Sharukh

“All that is good, we are. Love and compassion radiate from our very being; we need only remember.”
― Laura Jaworski

“I believe that if you want to be surrounded by kindness, then you get to express it yourself towards yourself and others.”
― Zane Baker

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KINDNESS QUOTES [BLOG#11]

KINDNESS QUOTES

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Acts of Kindness:
A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else’s life.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
― George Sand

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
― R.J. Palacio

“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
― Rick Riordan

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
― Aesop

“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“To belittle, you have to be little.”
― Kahill Gibran

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
― Lao-Tzu

“All I’m saying is, kindness don’t have no boundaries.”
― Kathryn Stockett

“People shouldn’t have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
― Mother Teresa

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
― Franklin D

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
― Andy Rooney

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
― Jack Kerouac

“It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.”
― Steve Maraboli

“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.”
― Mary Schmich

“I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
― William Shakespeare

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
― Wendy Mass

“…treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can’t
until you do understand.”
― Kim Harrison

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”
― Brian Tracy

“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien,

“What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Michelle Obama

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
― Brad Meltzer

“He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.”
― Rosamund Hodge

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ACHIEVEMENT QUOTES [BLOG#10]

ACHIEVEMENT QUOTES

“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
― Roy T Bennett

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Live the Life of Your Dreams
When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
― Albert Einstein

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”
― Paulo Coelho

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
― Harry S. Truman

“It shouldn’t be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder―or impossible―to lose.”
― Sarah Dessen

“Don’t mistake activity with achievement.”
― John Wooden

“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
― Horace Mann

“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”
― Criss Jami

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
― B. F. Skinner

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
― Criss Jami

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
― Anatole France

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
― William Faulkner

“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”
― Ayn Rand

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The roughest roads often lead to the top.”
― Christina Aguilera

“If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Achievement has no color”
― Abraham Lincoln

“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is.”
― idowu koyenikan

“And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.”
― Mark Haddon

“Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.”
― Tim Fargo

“If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.”
― Criss Jami

“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.”
― Stanley Wolpert

“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”
― Chinua Achebe

“If my mind can conceive it,
My heart can believe it,
I know I can achieve it!”
― Jesse Jackson

“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”
― Joseph Joubert

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You don’t cry when someone pushes you down. You get up. You get up and you fight back. And pretty soon nobody’s going to shove you anymore because they’ll see it’s not worth it.”
― Morgan Rhodes

“Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.”
― Napoleon Hill

“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.”
― Joe Abercrombie

“Nothing […] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve”
― W. Clement Stone

“Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.”
― Kevin Michel

“The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.”
― Colin Powell

“People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.”
― Marguerite de Navarre

“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
― Joan Collins

“But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity’s a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.”
― Tom Robbins

“But people need lift, too. People don’t get moving, they don’t soar, they don’t achieve great heights, without something buoying them up.”
― Elizabeth Wein

“Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.”
― Vera Nazarian

“You are the greatest achievement of your own life.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan

“To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.”
― Kevin Michel

“As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.”
― Joseph Conrad

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DECISION QUOTES [BLOG#7]

DECISION QUOTES

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”
― Erich Fromm

“You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”
― Terry Goodkind

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”
― Erika Johansen

“you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.”
― Ilona Andrews

“Even if we all want you here, you don’t belong until you decide you do.”
― Stephenie Meyer

“Think a hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“People will always have opinions about your decision because they’re not courageous enough to take action on their opinion.”
― Steve Maraboli

“Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you’re going to be.”
― Cassandra Clare,

“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”
― Horace Walpole

“It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.”
― Phillip C. McGraw

“We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us.”
― F.W. Boreham

“Are we friends? or are we foes? … That kind of thing… You decide… For yourselves!!!”
― Eiichiro Oda

“I’ve made a decision and now I must face the consequences.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.”
― Deepak Chopra

“With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made.”
― Damon Thueson

“You will hardly find wrong people at right places. Choose to be at the right places and you will find the right people who will inspire you to make it happen!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Seize what’s been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.”
― James Patterson

“Don’t beg a man to keep you. If he isn’t sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. You deserve better than maybe.”
― Paula Heller Garland

1. “You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.” — Napoleon Hill

2. “Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.” — Gary Vaynerchuk

3. “You cannot make progress without making decisions.” — Jim Rohn

4. “The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”- Maimonides

5. “A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.” – Dorothea Brande

6. “Life presents many choices, the choices we make determine our future.” – Catherine Pulsifer

7. “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” – Nelson Mandela

10. “You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.” — Robert T. Kiyosaki

12. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”- Jim Rohn

13. “When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder.” – William Joseph Slim

14. “Why do we have to listen to our hearts? Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you all find your treasure.”- Paulo Coelho

15. “We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.” – Thomas Merton

16. “Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.” – Sakyong Mipham

“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”- Anthony Robbins

“Decision decides destiny. What God wants you to become is the positive person you decide to become when led by God’s spirit.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else’s voice.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Every decision you make takes you one step closer to being wealthy … or one step further away.”
― Shay Olivarria

“The art of decision making includes the art of questioning.”
― Pearl Zhu

“There’s no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision.”
― S.A. Tawks

“People who found something to live and die for always live in the hope of success. They never allow doubts to create distances between them and their harvest time. That is also their decision.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Sometimes, the best decision is making a decision.”
― Frank Sonnenberg

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HUMANITY QUOTES [BLOG #4]

HUMANITY QUOTES

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
― Mother Teresa

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Ralph Ellison

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
— Mother Teresa
“Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.”
— Maya Angelou

“The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.”
— Jimmy Carter

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
— Dalai Lama

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
— Thurgood Marshall

“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
— bell hooks

“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.”
— Kofi Annan

“Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.”
— Hank Green

“We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.”
— Albert Einstein

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
— Gloria Steinem

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”
— Leo Tolstoy

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

“During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.”
— Maya Angelou

“I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.”
— Billy Joel

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”
— Marie Curie

“What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.”
— Voltaire

“We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.”
— E. O. Wilson

“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
— Desmond Tutu

“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
— Woodrow Wilson

“One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.”
— Joseph Campbell

“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”
— Immanuel Kant

“Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
― R.J. Palacio

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Ralph Ellison

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
― C. JoyBell C

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
― R.J. Palacio

“If you can’t draw close to the other and feel their humanity, then there won’t be any movement toward justice.”
— Ken Wytsma

“Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you’ve got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You’re a world – everything is hidden in you.” — Hildegard of Bingen

“There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.” — Isaac Asimov

“Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.” — Maria Montessori

“If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.” — Terry Pratchett

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.” — Milan Kundera

“The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we’re a part.” — Ronald Reagan

“To be a Baha’i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.” — Abdu’l-Bahá

“The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it’s the next step of peace that we need to create.” — Vandana Shiva

“Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it’s so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.” — Elie Wiesel

“I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.” — Rudyard Kipling

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.” — Leo Tolstoy

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EMPATHY QUOTES [BLOG #2]

EMPATHY QUOTES

One of the most important aspects of being a human being, is being able to be in a relationship. Being able to successfully form and maintain a relationship. And at the heart of that capability is the capacity to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes, to see the world as how they see it. That capacity is empathy. – Bruce Perry
This capacity for empathy leads to a genuine encounter – we have to progress toward this culture of encounter – in which heart speaks to heart. – Pope Francis

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person. – Carl Roger
Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another. – Dada Vaswani

If you find yourself saying ‘But I’m just being honest’, chances are you’ve just been unkind. Honesty doesn’t heal. Empathy does. – Dan Waldschmidt
All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves. – Criss Jami

If you look into someone’s face long enough, eventually you’re going to feel that you’re looking at yourself. – Paul Auster
An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like. – Tarana Burke

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eye for an instant? – Henry David Thoreau

The greatest cruelty is our casual blindness to the despair of others. – Anonymous

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act. – Eric Zorn
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. – Walt Whitman

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. – Tahereh Mafi
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. – Jonathan Franzen

We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood. – Maya Soetoro-Ng
When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. – Criss Jami

If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied. – Dan Pearce
Practicing kindness increases our ability to be empathetic. It helps keep our hearts open. And that, truly, is the best way to live. – Kristi Bowman

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. – Meryl Streep
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms. – Sterling K. Brown

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe. – Homer
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Leo Buscaglia

Have compassion and empathy in your heart. Many people are suffering deep emotional anguish beneath the surface of their lives, and smile even as they hurt inside. – Jim Palmer
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. – Frederick Buechner

Empathy means both understanding others on their own terms and bringing them within the orbit of one’s own experience. – Jacob A. Belzen
To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. – Stephen Bachelor

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. – Karen Armstrong
Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you do not have to fight. – Traci Lea Larussa

The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them. – Louis C.K.
The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love. – Criss Jami

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own. – Barbara Kingsolver
Empathy is one of humankind’s prized possessions. Acts of consideration and kindness are inevitable when a person can mentally step into someone else’s shoes. Even if it’s just for a moment. – Izey Victoria Odiaze

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