We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Topic: Kindness, Life
- Location: Capital Reef National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
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It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.
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If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
A kind word is like a spring day.
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.
