“Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled,… — Ross W. Greene Copy Share Image
“[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.” — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not. — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature. — Youssef Ziedan Copy Share Image
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life.… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
“Love is antithetical to human nature. Humans seek their own good. Their own survival. Their own glorification. But love seeks the good… — Christina Daley Copy Share Image
The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“On the twelfth of June, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began--that is, an event took… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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“It is worth while to point out the differing characters of a system and a method, because parents let themselves be run… — Charlotte M. Mason Copy Share Image
Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive”… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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Men have feelings and they cry too. Crying doesn't mean he's weak it means he's HUMAN. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
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