"I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete."

-- Martin Seligman

#Wisdom Quotes #Believe Quotes #I Believe Quotes

“When you serve others, when you make somebody elseâ€™s life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but youâ€™re being blessed.”
“I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I donâ€™t know, get drunk, run around, take my shirt off and get kicked out of someplace. You know, live a little.”

Source : Michelle Tea (2010). “Valencia”, p.41, Hachette UK
“Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?”
“You never see girls running after engineers.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Many people believe that making themselves the key person in their lives is a bad thing. It's simply good common sense. After all, you're the only person who's with you 24/7 until you draw your last breath.”

Source : "8 Principles for Having Fun" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.
“If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?”
“I tell you, my friends,â€™ he said one day. â€˜I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. Itâ€™s the others that are mad, but they donâ€™t know it. They fight a war and they donâ€™t know what for. Isnâ€™t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And itâ€™s me they call mad!”
“As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.”

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