"There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form."

-- David W. Orr

#Mean Quotes #Successful Quotes #People Quotes

“It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm not really into religion.”
“It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.”
“Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.”
“Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.”
“As a passionate sports fan, as well as an athlete, I am excited to be a part of CBS Sports Network's historic sports-focused program hosted entirely by women, especially at a time when the influence of women in sports has evolved to where it is today.”
“Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.”
“You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.”

Source : Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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