"Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave."

-- Baltasar Gracian

#What Matters Quotes #People Quotes #Common Quotes

“The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.”
“You do not know what you can achieve until you try.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nick Vujicic from May 20, 2014
“It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.”
“I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.”
“As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.”

Source : Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”
“Every day-care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choice is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education, between bad education and good education.”
“Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.”
“I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.”

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