"A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist."

-- George Washington Carver

#Caring Quotes #Self Quotes #Years Quotes

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
“Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.”
“To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.”
“I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.”
“It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies, form pressure groups, start revolutions, change forms of government, tinker at political theory. The fact that these expedients have been tried unsuccessfully in every conceivable combination for 6,000 years has not noticeably impaired a credulous unintelligent willingness to keep on trying them again and again.”
“I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.”
“Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers.”

Source : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.
“I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.”

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