The PEOPLE. Quotes
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.
I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.
No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children
Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.
The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.
The first step to success in any business is to ask your customers what they want.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
We've all lost something along the way.
Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.
I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.
Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.
I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.
At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.
There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.
If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.
I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.
Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone
At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.
The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.
The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.
You aren't alive if you aren't in need.
Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.
If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.
Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.
Being is seeing in the human dimension.
Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be.
War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.
The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.
Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really
Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.