"When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us."

-- Marshall Ganz

#Choices Quotes #Stories Quotes #Kind Quotes

“There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.”
“Nobody should put out a record before they know what the street thinks.”
“Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.”
“Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.”
“See, the â€˜small stuffâ€™ is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is distorted. They ignore â€˜small stuff,â€™ claiming to have an eye on the bigger picture, never understanding that the bigger picture is composed of nothing more than-are you ready?- â€˜small stuffâ€™.”
“Being asked where in Greece he saw good men , he replied, "'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.”
“He looked gravely at the king. "It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself. But no matter, Your Majesty. You are revealed at last." The king looked down at his nakedness and back at the captain. "Was that a joke?" he asked.”
“I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.”

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