#vic

Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Pay attention. Be aware . If we don't consciously form good ones, we will unconsciously form bad ones. ↗

— Mark Matteson

#attention #awareness #be-aware #habits #inspirational

To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, you can kill somebody with it. It is a vicious way to fight. ↗

— Thomas Foran

#because #fight #good #karate #kill

I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement. ↗

— Hans Frank

#dealt #difficult #during #hitler #i

The highest of distinctions is service to others. ↗

— King George VI

#highest #others #service #service to others

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people. ↗

— Evan G. Galbraith

#foreign #foreign service #guts #out #people

Nothing changes if nothing changes ↗

— Donna Barnes

#dating-advice #relationship-advice #relationships #change

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#cannot #coming #conviction #demonstrated #geometry

The most popular labor-saving device is still money. ↗

— Phyllis George

#money #most #popular #still

And here you see me working out, as cheerfully and thankfully as I may, my doom of sharing in the glass a constant change of customers, and of lying down and rising up with the skeleton allotted to me for my mortal companion. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#victorian #writing-life #change