"To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right."

-- Lesslie Newbigin

#Character Quotes #Kind Quotes #Forget Quotes

“I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.”
“The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.”
“What do you know about music, you're not a lawyer?”

Source : Interview with Tim Broun, www.furious.com.
“Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.”
“The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took me a long time as an actress to learn that. Actually Arthur Miller taught me in the Seventies. We were making a CBS TV drama of his play Playing for Time about Auschwitz but the characters were laughing. It was a big insight for me to realise that that was what's called gallows humour, in this case worse than the gallows, that humans need to laugh and make jokes in order to survive.”
“The Lord showed me by vision and revelation what would happen if we did not stop this practice... all ordinances would be stopped... many men would be made prisoners... I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write...”
“If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they canâ€™t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in Americaâ€™s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart â€” and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.”
“You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.”

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