"Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Heart Quotes #Pride Quotes #Pigs Quotes

“I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.”
“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.”
“All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.”
“The easiest person to fool is yourself.”
“Christianity is not about moving away from vice to virtue. It's moving away from virtue to Christ.”
“This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.”
“The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.”

Source : Irving Greenberg (2011). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.282, Simon and Schuster
“I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.”

You may also like: