"We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living"

-- Confucius

#Eye Quotes #Honor Quotes #Should Quotes

“We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.”
“Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”
“The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.”

Source : Michael Phelps (2012). “No Limits: The Will to Succeed”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
“In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioning, but grown. This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.”
“Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once.”
“If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then one community would like white and dislike black and the other would like black and dislike white. Moreover, this attitude leaves a physical effect on the cells as well as on the genes in the body.”
“People automatically assume and expect that every moment and every bit of personal data should be broadcasted on social media, especially as it relates to them - and thats just not cuttin' it for me. If you can make it through the age of social media and come out with the same friends and lover, kudos!”
“When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage in.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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