"Home is the place where true politeness tells."

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Source : Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

Julia McNair Wright

#Home Quotes #Politeness Quotes

“To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.”
“With age comes wisdom and confidence, and I don't feel like I'm seeking approval as much as I used to from other people.”
“Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.”
“I say yes when I mean no and the wrinkle grows.”
“The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to the teachings of the Buddha is of little importance. The name one gives is inessential.... In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men's minds.”

Source : Walpola Rahula (2014). “What the Buddha Taught”, p.17, Oneworld Publications
“I'm an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window.”
“Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.”
“Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and bad nerves.”

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