“Sometimes it’s more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 77 of 303
“I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.”
“All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.”
“Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.”
“I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathise with these cries from the heart that are informed by nothing except a needle or a knife, or whatever it is.”
“Too often, parents force their kids into becoming something they want them to become rather than trying unpack the treasure chest God wants them to become.”
“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”
“the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.”
“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
“I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few things in life and forget about a lot of other stuff.”
“There is a very modest side to me too. How far away from me is the image? It's about 20 steps away.”
“People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs.”
“You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that."”
“The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.”
“Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself”
“Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.”
“Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.”
“It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.”
“When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.”
“It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.”