"Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#Positive Quotes #Inward Quotes #Goodness Quotes

“Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.”

Source : Gary Snyder (1974). “Turtle Island”, p.101, New Directions Publishing
“The benefits kids get from watching "Sesame Street" can be as powerful as the ones children get from preschool.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.”
“I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.”
“I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.”
“I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.”

Source : "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.
“It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.231, Vintage
“Boredom makes you do crazy things”

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