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"The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others."
Margaret Atwood
"Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth."
Michael Crichton
Inspiration
Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.
Author
"The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies."
Madame de Sablé
"But what is unjust? That depends on a person's thoughts, values, and beliefs. People differ sharply on what is just or unjust in this world. Thus, some people become angry much quicker than others."
Abraham J. Twerski
"They talk of my drinking but never my thirst."
Old saying
Inspiration
Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.
Joan Halifax
"Not getting a straight answer is a straight answer."
Sarvesh Jain
Inspiration
Applaud my idiocy.
Conan O'Brien
Inspiration
... The best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.
Author
"Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable."
Swami Vivekananda
Inspiration
The rage for swiftness which is so characteristic of this restless time has been extended to fashions of reading. One effect of the modern habit of swift and careless reading is seen in the impatience with which anything is regarded which is not to be taken in at a glance.
Arlo Bates
"What we do to others, we do to ourselves."
Anonymous
Inspiration
The unsaid rules every conversation.
Marty Rubin
"The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!"
Marianne Williamson
Inspiration
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Author
Inspiration
All will come out in the washing.
Miguel de Cervantes
"A delicate balance is required: keep the penitent tautly close to the point of recognizing sin, and then allow the relief of that pressure to flow through forgiveness. Confession increases this tautness, only to clear the path for release."
Thomas C. Oden
Inspiration
Self-education is self-empowerment.
Author
"Why then should witless man so much misweeneThat nothing is but that which he hath seene?"