"In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color."

-- Horace Mann

#Inspirational Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Color Quotes

“When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.”
“Today, many people are coming to America from very unstable situations. A hundred years ago, people came to America because they wanted to be Americans.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.”
“The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand”

Source : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.228, Litres
“To create, we need both technique and freedom of technique”
“A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.”
“Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible. And if we cannot help others, at least we should try not to create pain and suffering for them.”
“Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!”

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