"We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen."

-- Edmund Burke

#Citizens Quotes #Zealous Quotes #Affection Quotes

“Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.”
“We all enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming, soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there.”
“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.”

Source : Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”
“It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.”
“There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue the image because they can't do anything else. They don't even read. Their real identity is in making those pictures. They have to keep jumping on horses and hitting somebody on the head with a gun.”
“Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'”

Source : "David Blunkett: the challenge facing Labour today" by David Blunkett, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2013.
“The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.”

Source : Ernest Henry Starling (1965). “Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart”
“We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's experiences. Many of my AIDS patients discovered that the last year of their lives was by far their best. Many have said they wouldn't have traded the rich quality of that last year of life for a healthier body. Sadly, it is only when tragedy strikes that most of us begin attending to the deeper aspects of life. It is only then that we attempt to go beyond surface concerns-what we look like, how much money we make, and so forth-to discover what's really important.”

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