"I believe the ultimate source of blessings is within us. A good motivation and honesty bring self-confidence , which attracts the trust and respect of others. Therefore the real source of blessings is in our own mind."

-- Dalai Lama

#Honesty Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Real Quotes

“I like you a lot. Because youâ€™re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know thatâ€™s not a good reason, but I canâ€™t help it; if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your faceâ€””
“I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?”
“I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is completely different. It's for presenting an imaginative version of the world which I hope people would recognize and be affected by.”
“To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.”
“Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.”

Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”
“The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.”

Source : Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). “How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price”
“We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.”
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Feb 02, 2012

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