"The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Spirituality Quotes

“Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.”

Source : "The TCA's Most Aww-Worthy Moments" by Samantha Zabell, www.seventeen.com. August 12, 2013.
“You can learn a lot of things from being in movies.”
“Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does nothing to solve the grave realities of the federal government's insatiable appetite for spending and its inability to reform itself.”
“To live effectively is to live with adequate information.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.18, Da Capo Press
“Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave washing away a message in the sand. Second, forgiveness involves caring for the offending person because most people who offend us have something in their own heart that needs healing. When we forgive others, they are released from our anger and we are healed by God.”
“Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.”
“We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.”
“My quiltmaking is sandwiched, moved about, displaced between other activities and the crosscurrents of people's movements inside the place I live.”

Source : Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns

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