“Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards.” (Soren Kierkegaard, quoted in TheAtlantic.com) “A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.” (Jack London, quoted in First post.com) “Bad times don’t last, but good men do.” …
“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.” (Abraham Lincoln) “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” (Albert Einstein) You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what …
“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.” (Albert Einstein, quoted in the Weekly Economic Update) “Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, …
“I never learned anything while I was talking.” (Larry King, quoted in FastCompany.com) “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” (Charles Bukowski, quoted in The Jersey Journal) “The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because small and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to …
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.” (Dorothy Parker, quoted in BuzzFeed.com) “The difference between a republic and a people’s republic is a lot like the difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.” (Ronald Reagan, quoted in The American Spectator) “Keep your …
“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.” (Dwight Eisenhower, quoted in United Press International) “Of all marvelous things, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man.” (Charles Caleb Colton, quoted by Steve Brown in “What Was I Thinking”) “Music is what feelings sound like out …