#ration

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. There are three faithful friends in our life,an old wife,an old dog and ready money. A real friend is one who always warms you. "Love is blind. Friendship close it eyes. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#change

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bread #buttered #deliberation #determine #examining

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#gives #hate #hope #i #liberation

Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up. ↗

— Victoria Addino

#inspirational #motivation #motivational #positive #positive-attitude

The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#attitude

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy ↗

— Jessica Dovey

#attitude

Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#inspirational-life #attitude

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#generation #good #his #immortal #mr

To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that we offer them possibility of going beyond the separate self in which suffering is harbored. (59) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#compassion #grounded #oneness #receiving #separation

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#civilized #civilized society #disintegration #hostility #men