“The actions you take today not only impact you; they influence generations. Every matter matters for eternity.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 46 of 303
“All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.”
“He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.”
“The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give to little ortoo much, is in essence an attempt to be the ideal child--well behaved and dutiful--of one's own parents. But as a result of these efforts the needs of the child go unnoticed. I cannot listen to my child with empathy if I am inwardly preoccupied with being a good mother; I cannot be open to what she is telling me.”
“Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.”
“We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.”
“Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.”
“I think the simpler the better.”
“That we would do We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.”
“When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.”
“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”
“Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.”
“This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.”
“I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.”
“I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?”
“Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.”
“My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.”
“I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.”
“Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote.”
“Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.”