"It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."

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Source : John Templeton (1994). “Discovering Laws Of Life: Tfp”, p.287, Templeton Foundation Press

John Templeton

#Inspiring Quotes #Thank You Quotes #Nice Quotes

“I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.”
“Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any other or, conversely, some Christians try to show that it is a better religion than the others. People attempt to take possession of God. Theology claims to explain everything, including the being of God. People tend to transform Christianity into a religion because the Christian faith obviously places people in an extremely uncomfortable position Â that of freedom guided only by love and all in the context of God's radical demand that we be holy.”
“Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.”
“We represent in ourselves organized terror - this must be said very clearly.”
“Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.”

Source : Haki R. Madhubuti (1990). “Black men: obsolete, single, dangerous? : Afrikan American families in transition : essays in discovery, solution, and hope”, Third World Pr
“Find Eloy. Smack his head into a wall, dance on his guts... I'd get creative. Spontaneous like.”
“If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.”
“You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.”

Source : "The Power List: Adepero Oduye Primed For Hollywood Greatness" by Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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