"Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]"

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Honesty Quotes #Thyself Quotes

“Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mary Gaitskill from May 15, 2012
“There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.”
“The noncook is in a helpless position, much like that of the car owner who canâ€™t change a tire and has to depend on mechanics to keep his automobile running.”
“It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.”
“If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.”

Source : John Flavel (1840). “Divine Conduct: Or, The Mystery of Providence, Wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence are Asserted and Vindicated ... and the Proper Course of Improving All Providences Pointed Out”, p.58
“I have to have breakfast and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy,”
“When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.”

Source : "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.
“I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.”

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