#we

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#competing #concern #create #criticizing #defeat

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#flower #get #into #just #made

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#been #difficult #education #eradicate #firm

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#been #belief #capacity #devoted #get

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. ↗

— Xun Zi

#animal #believe #boasts #conducts #deception

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#being #betray #dead #go #here

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. ↗

— Albert Brooks

#die #first #i #obituary #screwed

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#conflicts #greatest #himself #people #person

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#money #something #until #wealthy #you

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. ↗