"If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity."

-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

#Spiritual Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.”

Source : F. L. Lucas (2015). “The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.”
“You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's clichÃ©s.”
“Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them”
“Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.”
“It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.”
“Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.”
“It's a good thing wrinkles don't start 'til you're 50ish. So, wrinkles, then Happy 60th, and then Just think, you'll be 70 In just those short years, numbering ten”

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