"Health is the core of human development"

-- Gro Harlem Brundtland

#Development Quotes #Human Development Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.”

Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.12, Green Dragon Books
“It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.”

Source : Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”
“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”

Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.386, Random House
“Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.”
“I don't have anything to hide. And for the record, I am not against plastic surgery. I believe that any woman that wants to do anything or fix anything that bothers her - if she's doing it for herself - I'm all for it.”
“If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.”
“Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine humility will ever feel the need of the largest measures of grace, and will be perfected just in the degree in which that grace is bestowed. The truly humble man will seek to be filled with all the fullness of God, knowing that when so ï¬lled there is not the slightest place for pride or for self.”
“Climate change is the sine qua non of continued civilization. We either solve this, or it's lights out. Turning into a collective like that is so much more aligned with how humans live and think and change.”

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