"It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge."

-- Grover Cleveland

#Running Quotes #Principles Quotes #Defeated Quotes

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”

Source : Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.13, Open Road Media
“Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1974). “Unlearning the lie: sexism in school”, William Morrow & Company
“I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.”
“Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.”

Source : "Why? New Eichmann Notes Try to Explain" by Roger Cohen, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 1999.
“Living wisdom cannot be confined within words, but it can be hinted at through situations, much as a specific feature of an otherwise undistinguished landscape can often be discerned by following the path projected by a pointing finger. "Them that have ears, let them hear," said Jesus; whoever "hears" the inner import of words will be able to "see" their inward meaning.”
“They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.”
“What does old look like? Sometimes I am wrinkled, sometimes not.”
“I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending...”

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