"Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel."

-- Maxwell Maltz

#Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Desire Quotes

“He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light is but limited - and the illuminating grace of the Spirit abide in him. The first by means of practice trains the flesh in virtue, the second illuminates the intellect so that it chooses above all else companionship with wisdom; and through wisdom it destroys the strongholds of evil and pulls down 'all the self-esteem that exalts itself against the knowledge of God' (II Cor. 10:5).”
“Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.”

Source : "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.
“All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.”

Source : Frank O'Connor (1969). “A Set of Variations: Twenty-seven Stories”
“Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.”

Source : "Obama-Clinton ticket for 2012" by L.Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 2, 2010.
“All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.”
“Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.”
“True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face.”

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