"It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code."

-- Jane Addams

#Successful Quotes #Giving Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our societyâ€¦unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.”
“I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.”
“To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.”
“It's the worst kind of cruelty â€” the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.”
“I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.”

Source : Etheridge Knight (1968). “Poems from prison”
“It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.”

Source : FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from Sep 20, 2016
“I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me”
“America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.”

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