"That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason."

-- Joseph Addison

#Offending Quotes #Bravery Quotes #Uniforms Quotes

“He had everything a dream boy should have. Back, front, sides, Everything. A head.”
“I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my wife, and thus I am able to draw on this auxiliary memory bank. Moreover, there is a second way In which I get ideas ... I listen carefully to what my wife says, and in this way I often get a good idea. I recommend to ... young people ... that you make a permanent acquisition of an auxiliary memory bank that you can become familiar with and draw upon throughout your lives.”
“God enters the world through those of us who are willing to let God participate fully in our lives.”
“Whatever you give, if you give it freely and without conditions it'll come back to you two fold.”
“There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us.”
“Curing the negatives does not produce the positives.”

Source : Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.10, Vintage
“There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.”
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”

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