#advice

I always pass on good advice, it is the only thing to do with it.It is never of any use to oneself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #humor

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius. ↗

— Connie Brockway

#genius #humor #want #humor

Beware of advice—even this. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#quotes #true #writing-advice #inspirational

Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#eragon #garrow #inheritance #inspirational #intelligence

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#leadership #self-control #leadership

Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world. ↗

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#philosophy-of-life #life

I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#child #childhood #encouragement #memoir #memories

I admonish Your Majesty, as the woman who gave you life and loves you like no other, to behave always in a manner that safeguards your immortal soul. Seek God's glory in the Holy Land rather than your own, that I may see you in heaven if never again in France. ↗

— Sophie Perinot

#blanche-de-castile #louis-iv #motherhood #life

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#self-actualization #love

Then you must tell them that love isn't something like a grindstone that's the same thing everywhere and do the same thing to everything it touches. Love is like the sea. It is a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and its different with every shore." (written properly and not in slang) ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#janie #pheoby #to #wise #words