"The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?"

-- John Muir

#Humility Quotes #Men Quotes #World Quotes

“The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.”
“I actually have a lot of couples coming & telling me that one of my songs was instrumental in strengthening their romance.”
“I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.”
“The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.”
“This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.”
“The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.”
“I'm a real people pleaser, and for a while I was really desperate to make a kind of thing that would satisfy everyone, and I realized I was focusing so much on satisfying everyone else that I'd forgotten that the only real way to make anything true is to focus on making what you want to hear and saying what you want to say. Trying to people please with my art was a direct line to complete meltdown, writer's block situation, and I had to look inward before I could move past it.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.”

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