"Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness â€“ all of them due to the offendersâ€™ ignorance of what is good or evil."

-- Marcus Aurelius

#Ignorance Quotes #Evil Quotes #Selfishness Quotes

“Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015
“One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.”

Source : Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (2002). “The Cabinet of Curiosities: A Novel”, p.395, Hachette UK
“So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there, or some sort of memory of it. It still is in the cultural memory and identity of these cities as much as it is in the physical and architectural memory. It's where these two things overlap, I think, that we're trying to explore with the photos.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.”

Source : Mary Doria Russell (1998). “Children of God: A Novel”, Villard Books
“It's good to learn early that every show is a family---complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness...”

Source : Kristin Chenoweth (2009). “A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages”, p.109, Simon and Schuster
“Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often.”
“My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.”
“I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on.”

Source : Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.112, Penguin

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