"To be really honest, I think if anybody did derive comfort from the fact that 'there's always someone worse off than yourself,' they'd have to be a pretty sad and sick individual. If I've sprained my wrist, I'm not made happier by the thought that someone somewhere has broken their leg!"

-- Stuart Hill

#Thinking Quotes #Broken Quotes #Sick Quotes

“Beautiful thoughts, build a beautiful soul.”
“Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.”
“As for my interest in diversity, I believe it is closely aligned with my work on the project, Giving Voice To Values. That is, there are often times when we may witness or personally experience situations where some individuals are not treated with the same respect or care as others, precisely due to some difference in their identities, their styles, their experiences, or their perspectives. Often it is difficult to speak up in such a situation, for ourselves or for others.”
“My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.”

Source : Letter to Lord Althorpe, 5 October 1782, in Lord Teignmouth 'Life of Sir W. Jones' (1835) vol. 1
“Sometimes I'm dragging my ***** out to the airport at 8 a.m. on a Saturday and I'm wondering why I'm doing this, but once I walk on stage I know why...because I'm addicted.”
“I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square.”

Source : Harry Golden (1967). “The Best of Harry Golden”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
“Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.”

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