"I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescensionâ€”the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds."

-- Mark Van Doren

#Attitude Quotes #Hate Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.”

Source : Charles Williams (2016). “Essential Writings in Spirituality and Theology”, p.86, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course.”
“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.”
“She hasn't run faster than herself before”
“It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.”
“You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 11, 2014
“As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.”
“Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted out a master plan for following my dreams.”

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