#acts

We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#acts #judgement #life #reflection #self

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#good-intentions #goodness #men

No one's life made sense on paper. You cannot condense a person into facts. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#facts-of-life #human #inspiration #life #people

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#blind #day #eyes #facts #i

We have soul contracts with every person in our lives to live in the vibration of truth. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#inspiration #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #integrity #joy

I thought I was going to die right there on the spot. I've never heard anything so terrible in my whole life. I hope she is wrong and I never get a period. I am eleven years old and entirely too young to hear about it. Can you imagine my mother not knowing what Kotex are for and dusting the house with them? Well, her mother can just tell her what they are for. I'm not getting into the facts of life. I haven't heard one fact of life I like yet. ↗

— Fannie Flagg

#humor #imagination

Money always removes the charge of craziness. ↗

— John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel - The East of Eden Letters

#money

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. ↗

— Mark Twain

#congress #could #criminal #distinctly #except

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

#big #big family #family #hope #many

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#american #american people #books #decency #deep