"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself."

-- Mark Twain

#Life Changing Quotes #Life Lesson Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.”
“My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.”
“If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.”

Source : NBC TV, August 12, 1986.
“Every baby moves with more ease and efficiency if allowed to do it at his own time and in his own way, without our trying to teach him. A child who has always been allowed to move freely develops not only an agile body but also good judgment about what he can and cannot do.”

Source : Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”
“Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of sound or light because to do so has a survival value, so are many species, including man, disposed to respond to separation from a potentially caregiving figure and for the same reasons.”

Source : John Bowlby (2012). “A Secure Base”, p.33, Routledge
“For Man nothing is beyond doubt; for God everything is beyond doubt.”
“[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.”
“He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.”

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