Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Walter Benjamin

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.

Kerry Washington

What is here is also there; what is there, is also here. Who sees multiplicity but not the one indivisible Self must wander on and on from death to death.

Katha Upanishad

Without the time, the world is only a static material; without the sense, the world is only a dead living system

Aditia Rinaldi

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Mortimer J. Adler

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

Michael Jackson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

Denis Waitley

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.

Cecelia Ahern

He said myths and mythology wasn't to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive.

Joseph Campbell

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

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