"Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior."

-- Harry Allen Overstreet

#Positive Quotes #Special Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.”
“Stay focused on the mission.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 28, 2016
“Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.”
“I think the eyeball is the same, [in] an American or African. The problem is the same, the treatment is the same. Yet why should there be so much variation in quality and in service?”
“I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.”
“More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf. Make a stab in the dark. Read off the beaten path. Your attention is precious. Be careful of other people trying to direct how you dispense it. Confront your own values. Decide what it is you are looking for an then look for it. Perform connoisseurship. We all need to create our own vocabulary of appreciation, or we are trapped by the vocabulary of others.”

Source : Phyllis Rose (2014). “The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading”, p.215, Macmillan
“If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain.”

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