"Generosity is not measured by how much we give away. Generosity is measured by how much we keep for ourselves."
John Weece
"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
Dorothy Parker
"Jazz is not just 'Well, man, this is what I feel like playing.' It's a very structured thing that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study."
Wynton Marsalis
"One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized."
Amit Abraham
"The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy."
William James
"I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves."
E. O. Wilson
"If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely."
Seth Godin
"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right it's ended up not being right."
Mario Cuomo
"The writer does not dare dream of giving the best of his individuality. No, he must never express his anger. The vacillating demands of mediocrity must be satisfied. Amuse the people, be their clown, give them platitudes about which they can laugh, shadows of truth which they can hold as truths."
Aleksandar Hemon
"I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A teaspoon of honey is worth more to the bee than a barrel of gold."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God."
Augustine of Hippo
"Meddling is the evil, not indifference."
Marty Rubin
"A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds."
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