"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."

-- Shirley Chisholm

#Inspiring Quotes #Earth Quotes #Pay Quotes

“I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.”
“However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.”

Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”
“Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something impossible, but they mean that a miracle is something formerly believed to be impossible that turns out not to be, not to be impossible, in other words, but possible after all. If this were really true, then miracles would be the most ordinary things in the world, the most uninspiring things in the world, and what can one expect from people who have never been anything but ordinary and uninspired.”
“We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.”

Source : "Climate Talks Urge Quick Cut to Global Warming". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 12, 2007.
“Christmas is a good time to take stock of our blessings.”
“Handsome, fictional men were so much easier to stomach than real life ones who smelled of Christmas and looked like a Calvin Klein model”
“all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.”
“All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.”

Source : Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.55, Princeton University Press

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