"Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty."

-- Stevie Smith

#Beauty Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Able Quotes

“Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.”

Source : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1859). “Sermons Preached Before His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales: During His Tour in the East in the Spring of 1862 with Notices of Some of the Localities Visited”, p.284
“Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didnâ€™t like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton.”
“I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.”
“Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.”
“One point has already been proven. Everything that happened once can happen again.”
“For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.”
“Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.”
“Every thing, even the so-called timesaving device and energy-efficient machine, comes these days with an elaborate set of instructions for its care and feeding. Buying a machine has become more and more like buying a pet. ... We are time-crunched. Not just by the number of things we have to do, but the number of things we have. In the late twentieth century, things have become our new dependents.”

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