"Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development."

-- Alexander Herzen

#Generations Quotes #Development Quotes #Introducing Quotes

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 16, 2016
“You know what you call the two winners of that $580 million PowerBall lottery? ... Former Democrats”
“I am really inspired when I am in an experience, at the front lines of conservation, and I see someone - a woman, a man, a child, a person - who has given up an opportunity to have a family, an opportunity for financial riches, even an opportunity for security, [to] put their whole life on the line to protect a species.”
“Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!”
“I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but I'm finally in a good place and learning to love me for me, and not somebody else's standards.”
“We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan”
“I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.”
“I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.”

Source : Arthur Ashe, Neil Amdur (1981). “Off the court”, Dutton Adult

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