It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure to be working sincerely and selflessly for the good of the...
To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.
Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.
One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still ...
People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.
A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.
As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and ...
With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.
To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!
Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.
You say that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world? Well I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.
Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.
Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.
I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.
Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.
