"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"

-- George Bernard Shaw

#Believe Quotes #Law Quotes #Individuality Quotes

“It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.”
“But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. Not the man who finds a grain of new and precious quality but to him who sows it, reaps it, grinds it and feeds the world on it.”

Source : Eugenics Review, Apr. 1914
“Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.”

Source : Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd
“A man is the origin of his action.”
“As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!”
“I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Marriage equality is "a threat to the nation's survival in the long run."”
“If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.”

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