"Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes."

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Rick Riordan

#Inspirational Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Awards don't really mean much.”
“How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!”

Source : Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1838). “Fireside Education ...”, p.102
“I have to be careful because there is something destructive within me, I think, and I can have a tendency to just search for the kicks. I can't really get too close to someone who's too destructive, or too dark, because then I might go down the rabbit hole myself.”
“We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.”

Source : "The Banality of Heroism" by Zeno Franco, Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu. September 1, 2006.
“Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it.”
“Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.”
“Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.”
“I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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