"This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves."

-- Rigoberta Menchu

#World Quotes #This World Quotes #Willing Quotes

“A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.”

Source : William Shenstone (1764). “The Works, in Verse and Prose”, p.52
“Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.”
“Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.”

Source : Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.214
“On her breast size increase during pregnancy: I even make Jordan look normal.”
“As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.”
“she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.”
“But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.”

Source : Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.78, Hachette UK
“The people who get more fame, who get more money, more often than not they are miserable, insecure and on anti-depressants. It's strange that everyone keeps buying into this idea that more success is good, that more fame is good, that more money is good. Yet, we look at the people who have more success, more fame, more money and they're miserable.”

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