"Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life."

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Source : "Men don't have it all either" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. March 13, 2013.

LZ Granderson

#Home Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Men Quotes

“In a few hours, Iâ€™m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living space given to someone elseâ€”my reputation destroyed. Iâ€™d rather have your head than your soul at this point in my illustrious career.â€ - Al”
“Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.”
“I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.”
“I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like â€˜the good Earth,â€™ the foundation of all our wealth.”
“In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly not competing in an anxious race and that I shall not suddenly read in the literature that someone else had done it all long ago. It is really at this point that the pleasure of research begins, when one is, so to speak, alone with nature and no longer worries about human opinions, views and demands. To put it in a way that is more learned than clear: the philological aspect drops out and only the philosophical remains.”

Source : "Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher". Book by Davis Baird, R.I.G. Hughes and Alfred Nordmann, 1998.
“If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.”
“If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.”
“Democracy works when people claim it as their own”

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