“I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 25 of 303
“We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad. But we could be more compassionate toward all these parts of ourselves. The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller. Wanting situations and relationships to be solid, permanent, and graspable obscures the pith of the matter, which is that things are fundamentally groundless.”
“I remember thinking how often we look, but never see ... we listen, but never hear ... we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.”
“I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.”
“Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.”
“We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?”
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
“Every profound spirit needs a mask.”
“Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.”
“Instead of wondering WHY this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to YOU.”
“I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.”
“Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.”
“All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes.”
“There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.”
“We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.”
“The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in here eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.”
“I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.”
“Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.”
“If you know something hurtful and not true, don't say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don't say it. If you know something helpful but not true, don't say it. If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it.”
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”