"The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it."

-- Margaret Halsey

#Motivation Quotes #Important Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Perhaps the way to meet tomorrow's challenges is not to use yesterday's solutions, but to dare to think the previously unthinkable, to speak the previously unspeakable, and to try that which was previously out of the question.”
“We need a critical theory that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals - in its market-driven, all, consuming consumerist idolatries.”
“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”
“What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.”
“Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime.”

Source : Jeffrey Steingarten (2008). “It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything”, p.84, Vintage
“It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were.”
“You really don't put a value on your first win, it is priceless no matter where you are.”
“One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.”

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