#kind

There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will look out for the age at which, had you your wish, your species had stopped. Uneasy at your present condition for reasons which threaten your unhappy posterity with still greater uneasiness, you will perhaps wish it were in your power to go back; and this sentiment ought to be considered, as the panegyric of your first parents, the condemnation of you contemporaries, and a source of terror to all those who may have the misfortune of succeeding you. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#age

Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#argument #debate #kindness #reason #anger

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#art

Principle 1: By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So in everything you do, learn to set limitations.   Principle 2: By choosing the essential, we create great impact with minimal resources. Always choose the essential to maximize your time and energy. ↗

— Leo Babauta

#art

Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#behind #bunch #crap #direction #had

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it. ↗

— Hugh Downs

#air #anything #attention #being #ego

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#god #invented #loved #mankind #silly

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. ↗

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

#criticism #kind #tells #thing #which

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#appealing #famous #famous people #i #kind