"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Inspirational Quotes #Confidence Quotes #Lying Quotes

“There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able to see my virtues magically. Once he kissed me, the frog would turn into a prince. I had become a trick question, a heavy disguise, but behind the disobliging exterior was the welcoming child I would always be. Of course, what I'd forgotten was that he was not Parsifal and I was not the Grail; the medievalism of my imagination was not sufficiently up-to-date to recognize that the lover was a shopper and I a product.”
“If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.”

Source : "The Ethical Mind". Howard Gardner, Harvard Business Review, March 2007.
“Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one.”

Source : "Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism". Book by Juan Donoso Cortes, 1879.
“The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.”
“That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.”
“Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.”
“You never compete with the people in your crew; you have your own team. Competition is only with those people whose film is releasing alongside on Friday and never with one's own team.”
“Sharpness is a bourgeois concept”

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