"I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#Selfish Quotes #Humility Quotes #Eye Quotes

“We love and we feel and we try and we hope.”
“I was never the biggest kid or the best looking kid or the most popular kid, but that's not all it takes. Sometimes you turn those weaknesses into strengths and wear it like a badge and see what it does.”
“As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all,”
“Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.”

Source : 'A Taste of Honey' (1959) act 1, sc. 2
“I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.”
“All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.”
“One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.”
“Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.”

Source : Francis Hutcheson (1753). “An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue”, p.301

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