"When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse."

-- Ron Suskind

#People Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes #Standing Quotes

“Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.”

Source : Song: Before You Accuse Me, Album: Journeyman, 1989
“What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.”

Source : Paul Theroux (2006). “The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.”
“There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.”
“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source : Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA
“Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.”
“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
“The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.”

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