#tribute

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#growing-up #wilhelm-stekel #die

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#misattributed #nobility #character

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#bad-reviews #book #humorist #wit #bad

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#wisdom #destiny

I love what I do. I love to capture the guy. I love to tell the victim 'Don't worry anymore. They're in jail.' And this is my way to heaven. This is my way to contribute to America what I know how to do best, and that's chase down the predator. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#anymore #best #capture #chase #contribute

Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#consulting #contribute #how #i #i can

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me. ↗

— Brian Clough

#history #hope #i #liked #me

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#contributes #fact #find #happiness #in fact

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#compassion #contribute #definitely #destroying #energy

Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form. ↗

— Victor Vasarely

#base #colour #every #form