"The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit."

-- Aristotle

#Maturity Quotes #Giving Quotes #Excellence Quotes

“Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isnâ€™t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.”
“We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.”
“In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.”
“There is a kind of mysticism to writing.”
“I'm a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.”

Source : "William Lucking rode many a motorcycle in films". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. November 9, 2008.
“My heavenly citizenship makes the whole world a foreign mission field.”
“I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.”

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