#through

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#cannot #choking #commandment #develop #development

It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#because #been #before #daniel #fbi

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count. ↗

— Ben Elton

#count #dependent #first #get #how

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#been #corners #days #disturbing #forum

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#against #art #born #breakthroughs #go

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home. ↗

— Michael Franti

#allow #bring #demons #either #feel

It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

#beautiful #beautiful thing #being #body #cool

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#helps #life #little #smoothly #through

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#gets #hurt #intelligence #intelligence community #through

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. ↗

— Martha Graham

#because #energy #expression #force #into