"But I'm English. We don't do uplifting."

-- Tony Judt

#Uplifting Quotes

“Don't be normal. Be an example.”
“Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.111, Univ of California Press
“When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.”
“There is less in this than meets the eye.”
“Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion in Aesop to the dog on whose back he crossed the river. They will destroy commerce and establish socialism, even if it kills them, because that is their nature.”
“It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.”

Source : "Harry Hill". TV Series, 1997 - 2000.
“This We Know. All Things Are Connected”

Source : Seattle (Chief), Susan Jeffers (1991). “Brother eagle, sister sky: a message from Chief Seattle”, Dial Books for Young Readers
“If you just had an inspiration at night or with a girl or whatever and you want to talk about it, you don't necessarily want to share it with everybody . . . That's the first thing that made me want to go solo; I wanted to talk about my own things, I wanted to try to be creative [in] my own way.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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