"Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane."

-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Appreciation Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify.”
“Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.”
“Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”
“â€ŽNiko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet.”
“I don't look for people who have achieved great things; I look for people who will achieve great things.”
“It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.”

Source : Diary entry for November 14, 1878. "Cosima Wagner's Diaries: An Abridgment". Book edited by Geoffrey Skelton, 1994.
“I'm an introspective dude.”
“To be honest, I wouldn't mind one last jaunt through the old orifice.”

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