#thy

The laws are stacked for the wealthy. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#stacked #wealthy

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#financial #friend #future #healthy #her

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! ↗

— William James

#anything #believes #cheap #discourse #faith

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. ↗

— William James

#community #dies #impulse #individual #sympathy

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#himself #man #only #wise #wise man

It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movies. That's the benefit of hanging out with rich people; they have no sense of what is or isn't possible. ↗

— Michael Patrick Jann

#benefit #family #go #hanging #heard

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#contract #dirty #drinking #even #except

Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#humanity #love #funny