"Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy."

-- Socrates

#What Matters Quotes #Joy Quotes #Victory Quotes

“To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.”
“If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.”

Source : "The marriage of church and state is anything but gay" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.
“There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized... Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42. One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course.”
“I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.”
“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.”
“I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness”

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