#vin

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#express #feeling #following #gratitude #impulse

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#dimensions #emerge #habit #living #long

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#boy #growing #growing up #having #listen

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

#being #china #christian #far #fears

Yes, I always imagined living in other places. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#i #i always #imagined #living #other

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#agitation #everybody #fight #fundamentally #harder

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#best #brought #good #good mother #i

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#ethics #evolution #goal #harming #highest

Although we dealt decisively with all terrorist organizations, we at the same time not only maintained, preserved our democracy, but kept improving it. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#dealt #decisively #democracy #improving #kept

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#end #ghosts #having #i #in the end