Them - Quotes
Happiness is not the absence of problems; it`s the ability to deal with them.
Those who are successful give credit to their mistakes and give them a polished new name, experience.
If the giver`s goal is to change behavior, it`s not enough to give the healthy thing - bran, let`s say - that you want them to eat. You also must give more bran than the recipient currently eats, that is, when he`s getting by without a grant. Any amount of bran he`s already eating - up to the amount of the grant - becomes cash, since he can substitute the gift bran for purchased bran, freeing up cash for anything else he might buy.
After the sun sets and everyone goes home
I am standing alone in a wide field
Little by little, I can`t see ahead of me because of the darkness
It makes me more and more afraid of being alone but
When I opened my tightly shut eyes at some point
Beautiful stars were shining
Like the images of you, who left far away
As I looked at them, I prayed that you`ll come back to me some day
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
To understand our civilisation, one must appreciate that the extended order resulted not from human design or intention but spontaneously: it arose from unintentionally conforming to certain traditional and largely moral practices, many of which men tend to dislike, whose significance they usually fail to understand, whose validity they cannot prove, and which have nonetheless fairly rapidly spread by means of an evolutionary selection - the comparative increase of population and wealth - of those groups that happened to follow them.
You don`t have to teach people to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
I`ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
Science is not a mechanism but a human progress, and not a set of findings but a search for them.
The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.
I think to be a well-rounded person, you have to experience good and bad, wonderful moments and pain. You need to meet people who have no exposure to kindness, who lack any opportunity and have no way out - like the homeless, the mentally ill - and you`ve got to learn empathy for them.