Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul. ~ PythagorusTweetShareSharePin
When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him. ~ R. A. LaffertyTweetShareSharePin
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ~ Maggie KuhnTweetShareSharePin
Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet. ~ Robert H. SchullerTweetShareSharePin
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. ~ Ralph Waldo EmersonTweetShareSharePin
Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic. ~ PlatoTweetShareSharePin
There are two great days in ones life, the first is the day we were born, the second is the day we realize why. ~ UnknownTweetShareSharePin
Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self. ~ Carl Gustav JungTweetShareSharePin
Not only has our competitive orientation cost society the skill of low achievers who might have excelled under different learning conditions, but it has largely undermined our capacity for teamwork and trust. In the classrooms of our youth, students were rarely allowed to pool knowledge on tests or work together on research projects. Such prohibitions, coupled with comparative grading policies, conditioned us to view one another as opponents. ~ Katz and LiuTweetShareSharePin