"All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves."

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Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”

Randolph Bourne

#Motivational Quotes #People Quotes #Way Quotes

“My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.”
“To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.”
“I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.”
“Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.”
“There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.”
“Itâ€™s not what you do some of the time that counts, itâ€™s what you do all of the time that counts.”
“Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.”
“I played 100 shows before I got paid”

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