"The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends."

-- Marian Hooper Adams

#Moral Quotes #Fingers Quotes #Ends Quotes

“The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...”
“Life is the twofold internal movement of composition and decomposition at once general and continuous.”
“My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.”
“Any place where you have to deal with many social actors like a school - you have the parents, the Ministry of Education, the school board, and the teachers - you need all kinds of sets and rules. You're trying to foresee anything that can happen and everything becomes really rigid. They don't want to talk about death because they don't want to overwhelm the children, but that has already happened, so you're not going to overwhelm them more.”
“But for real, for me, I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the pair of complexion. I'm just being for real. You have to be fair skinned to get away with that.”
“As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.”

Source : Wayne Teasdale (2010). “A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life”, p.13, New World Library
“As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.”
“A coward can die many times, but love can only die once.”

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