"If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one."

-- Chilon of Sparta

#Strong Quotes #Good Life Quotes #May Quotes

“It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.”

Source : Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”
“To drink is a small matter. To be thirsty is everything.”

Source : Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”
“This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place. Our job as gardeners is to try and figure this out no matter how small our allotted space might be. Discipline has to be the watchword for our controlling hands. It means not gardening without thinking of the garden as a habitat: for mice, for squirrels, for bees and wasps. For other living creatures beyond ourselves.”
“Since Im in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?”
“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
“Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?”
“If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well.”
“They were checking us so closely, I could tell what brand of deodorant they were using.”

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