#attributed

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#wisdom #destiny

The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway. © Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001 ↗

— Kent M. Keith

#goodness #happiness #honesty #kindness #misattributed-to-mother-teresa

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#causes #colony #condition #enterprise #farmers

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conflict #fighting #peace #revenge #trial

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. ↗

— Bette Midler

#right

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#buddhism #experience

Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#procrastination #procrastination

The past is a pebble in my shoe. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#misattributed #misattributed-to-poe #poe-singer #past

If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#misattributed-to-poe #persistence #persistence

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#attributed #british #dinner #great #great success