#ours

But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#course #funny #get #hurdles #i

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#duty #easier #others #reliable #self

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#feeding #feeds #hand #maybe #prevents

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#course #exist #hence #illness #literally

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#anything #common #course #daily #grind

'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#new #nothing #nothing new #sun #under

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself. ↗

— Ice T

#different ways #emcee #good #limit #lot

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen! ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#better #between #comes #god #heart

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#count #crowned #heaven #himself #his

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#discern #enter #faults #god #ground