#own

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#attribute #better #effort #entirely #essence

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#devoid #exist #exists #fiction #his

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children. ↗

— Leon Kass

#children #life #live #only #our

Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#because #become #depressed #dominated #emotions

It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president. ↗

— John Boehner

#bush #colleagues #dealt #difficult #down

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. ↗

— George Eliot

#down #hour #ignorance #knowledge #pulls

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#age #any #brain #certain #certain age

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#lonely #strange #universally #yet

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#existing #important #important thing #own #questioning

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables. ↗

— John Boehner

#cincinnati #dad #floors #growing #growing up