Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.(To such heights of evil are men driven by religion)
Every Communist must grasp the truth, Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
(Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung - The Little Red Book)
True understanding is to see the events of life in this way: 'You are here for by benefit, though rumor paints you otherwise.'"
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now if the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
All that is hateful in me, my daughter, proceeds from my lifetime of devotion to you.
Some people spend their whole lives working at jobs they hate with the dream of someday retiring so they can sit their old butt on the beach and relax. You can quit school right now and just go sit on the beach; it's free. The reason to study hard and work even harder is so that someday you can find something in life that's better and more rewarding than warm sand.
We commit to the work of reconciling race, one day at a time, because we follow the one who rightly orders love, who holds all things together, and who promises authentic reconciliation that God alone can accomplish.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines! Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover!
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Pessimists ‘tend to be right’ but optimists ‘tend to succeed’ and ‘get the most done’
When I was suddenly catapulted into the leadership of the bus protest in Montgomery, Alabama, a few years ago, I felt we would be supported by the white church. I felt that the white ministers, priests and rabbis of the South would be among our strongest allies. Instead, some have been outright opponents, refusing to understand the freedom movement and misrepresenting its leaders; all too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows.
-Letter from a Birmingham Jail)
live with intention
walk to the edge.
listen hard.
practice wellness.
play with abandon.
laugh.
choose with no regret.
continue to learn.
appreciate your friends.
do what you love.
live as if this is all there is.
Each one of us has to start out with developing his or her own definition of success.
And when we have these specific expectations of ourselves, we are more likely to live up to them.
Ultimately, it is not what you get or even what you give. It's what you become.
still alive
under the slightness of my hat
enjoying the coolness
Give me control over a nation’s currency, and I care not who makes its laws. (1743–1812)
Our willingness to fail gives us the ability and opportunity to succeed where others may fear to tread.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Yet I wonder if it doesn’t make sense to speak in terms of an American paradox—that is, a notably unhealthy people obsessed by the idea of eating healthily.
..you never speak about yourself without a loss.Your self-condemnation is always accredited,your self-praise discredited.
There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
But as you've seen, in matters of this kind,
Appearances can deceive the keenest mind.
Remember my example, and be wise:
When things look simple, don't believe your eyes.
(Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold)
The thing that makes tail events easy to under-appreciate is how easy it is to underestimate how things compound. How, for example, 9/11 prompted the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, which helped drive the housing bubble, which led to the financial crisis, which led to a poor jobs market, which led tens of millions to seek a college education, which led to $1.6 trillion in student loans with a 10.8% default rate. It's not intuitive to link hijackers to the current weight of student loans, but that's what happens in a world driven by a few outlier tail events.
(The Psychology of Money)
