My good friends tell me I'm genuine, kind, intelligent, wise, and funny. But I wouldn't take their word for it, they're mainly idiots (an example of me trying to be funny).
"I contain multitudes"
- Walt Whitman
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.”
– Arundhati Roy
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Agere sequitur cruder (we act according to what we believe ourselves to be).”
– Latin saying
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
– Bertrand Russell
“In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.”
– Mark Twain
“Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life’s critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.”
– Mardy Grothe
“There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.”
– Peter Brook
“A flatterer is a man who tells you your opinion and not his own.”
– Unknown.
“Nagging: a complaint that takes itself insufficiently seriously.”
– Alain de Botton
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
– Buddha.
“People change, they resist being changed.”
– Margaret Wheatley
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.”
– Dorothy Parker
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
– Dalai Lama