“In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished […]
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“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your abundance.” – Kahlil Gibran
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“It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.” – Voltaire
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“The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
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“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” ― Napoleon Hill
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“The pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.” – Edgar Allan Poe
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“It is especially for you, young people, to take on the great task of building a society where there will be more justice and solidarity.” – Pope Francis
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“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“We’ve always had rich and poor. But money is increasingly something that enables the rich, and even the merely prosperous, to live a life apart from the poor. And the rich and semi-rich … increasingly seem to feel that they deserve such a life, that they are in some sense superior to those with less. An especially precious type of […]
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“We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.” – Lewis Thomas
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