"I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging."

-- Robert Stone

#Thinking Quotes #Judging Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.”
“No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.”
“Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.198
“Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.”
“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”
“Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.”

Source : "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2006.
“I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.”
“If you want to empower anyone else in your life, you need to start living the most empowered version of yourself first!”

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