#idealist

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic. ↗

— Studs Terkel

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It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex. ↗

— Margot Kidder

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Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#honesty #idealistic #moral-clarity #success #successful

My only excuse is that I have no reputation myself, and I am thereby well aware of its ephemeral value. Reputation is worthless. Sebastian Bonnington's love letter to Esme Rawlings ↗

— Eloisa James

#love

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#co-dependence #divorce #idealism #idealists #marriage

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. ↗

— Henry Ford

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