#ten

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#attention #been #complaint #confine #consideration

We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough. ↗

— David Levithan

#contentment #happiness #life #life

Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time. ↗

— Keri Russell

#being #everyone #i #i do #like

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning. ↗

— Susan Moody

#life

To do no evil is good, to intend none better. ↗

— Claudius

#evil #good #intend #none

Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#kitty-foyle #pretending #life

The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people’s potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won’t let us build another person up, when everything has to build us up, then the effectiveness of the organization reverts to depending instead on how good we are in the technical aspects of what we do. And we have stopped leading and inspiring others to great heights. ↗

— John Dickson

#ego #inspiring #leadership #potential #inspirational

Life sucks. Enlightenment is getting over it. ↗

— Ari Delta

#life #life

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness? ↗

— Alain de Botton

#life #madness #morality #world #life

Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree? ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#politeness #thoughtfulness #life