"The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'"

-- Dalai Lama

#Mean Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.”
“Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.”

Source : Mary Parker Follett (1977). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”, Buccaneer Books
“Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)”
“A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know." "Suppose you can't see it?" "That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There's no such thing as a lost cause.”
“The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander”
“Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.”
“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.”

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