"The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones."

-- A. J. Jacobs

#Compassion Quotes #Keys Quotes #Years Quotes

“I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.27, ETT Imprint
“It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines.”
“What we were striving for was a kind of modified form of communism.”

Source : "They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by John H. George and Paul Boller, p. 52, 1989.
“I can't tell you the number of times in high school I was allowed to be disappointed for not making the grade; it's a part of life. So the young students who are being taught by radical leftists in this country today are going to end up growing up in a world for which they are totally unprepared and unequipped.”
“Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did.”
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
“I've got news for you. We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.”

Source : "The Game and Guarantee That Changed Football Forever" by Joshua Rhett Miller, www.foxnews.com. July 19, 2009.
“Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.”

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