"The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner."

-- Benjamin Barber

#Learners Quotes

“I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.”
“When you meet a new friend, the world has more light in it, doesn't it? Things become more spontaneous, and more full of laughing and freedom and novelty.”

Source : "Coleman Barks: Rumi, Grace and Human Friendship". Interview with Tami Simon, www.dailygood.org. December 29, 2013.
“I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.”

Source : "Jonathan Ames Talks HBO’s “Bored To Death,” Life In Brooklyn, And Wanting To Be Like Matt Damon". Interview with David Weiner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.
“To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.”
“In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.”
“Things come up in life and we don't feel like we can ever live through them, but if we're still alive afterwards, we get through it. It's that thing where what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I think that's beautiful.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Remember that Abraham Lincoln was a Whig far longer than he was a Republican. As a whole, the Whigs looked upon banks and corporations as a more efficient means of development; the Jacksonian Democrats thought they were the tools of the devil, but Whigs like Lincoln disagreed. During his presidency, Lincoln favored the re-construction of a national financial system, and his most important 'internal improvement' project was the Pacific railroad.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Peace is in proportion to every pause: observe the difference between to run, to walk, to stand, to sit, to lie, to die.”

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