#ration

Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change. ↗

— James A. Leach

#allow #alteration #bush #change #citizens

You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always smiling and good-humored. They are your masters, terribly sensitive and exacting master you will see. And the uglier and the dirtier they will be, the more unjust and insulting, the more love you must give them. It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them. ↗

— St. Vincent de Paul

#daughtersofcharity #inspirational #lazarists #padrespaules #vincentians

Everything will usually get worse before it gets better, but when it does get better...remember all who put you down and all who helped you up. Forgive but never forget. Let Karma take care of all the rest. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#inspirational #forgiveness

I can leave myself to rot in the past, spend my time hating people for what happened, like my father did, or I can forgive and forget." "But it's not that easy." He smiled that Frank smile. "Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things... ↗

— M.L. Stedman

#forgiveness #inspirational #forgiveness

Δυνατή γροθιά κατά την γνώμη μου δεν είναι αυτή που θα πετάξει τον αντίπαλο τρία μέτρα, δυνατή γροθιά είναι εκείνη που θα πετάξει πίσω και εσένα τον ίδιο. ↗

— Γιώργος Μ.

#martial-arts #art

No matter how long it takes to heal...we share the same scars... ↗

— Daniel Yanez

#healing-the-emotiinal-self #inspirational-attitude #scars #attitude

One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#expression #freedom-of-expression #rationality #thought #freedom

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine. ↗

— Steven Levy

#beautiful thing #been #behind #collaboration #distributed

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. ↗

— Kurt Lewin

#achievement #aspiration #goal #his #his way

Failure isn't something to be embarassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#inspirational #politics #technology #age