"You need to stop caring what people who don't matter think of you. Be who you are and let everybody else be who they are. Differences are a good thing."

“Your history's not going to go away; it isn't the same thing as dirt on the floor or paint peeling off the walls; it's not going to be solved in that way. It's more like learning how to carry it, to contact it, to see it. Because it's based on the psychology of the normal, the therapist is part of that too. And so they too are working with those very same processes. And so it requires a therapist just to see the value of it and to be willing to look at their own difficult emotions and thoughts and find a way to carry them gently in the service of the clients that they're serving.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.”

Source : Clive James (2008). “Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

“To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1834). “Leigh Hunt's London Journal”, p.314

“The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.”

“This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.”

“Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.”

Source : "The Life and Times of the Right Honourable Cecil John Rhodes 1853-1902, Volume 2". Book by Lewis Michell, New York and London: Mitchell Kennerly, p. 178, 1910.

“The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.”

“I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.' If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be”