Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say “she is so passionate” you don’t want people to think about you and remember you and say “she is so polite,” because, who cares about polite? – C. JoyBell C.
As the day you get married is as important as the years of courtship, so the journey to success is as important as success itself (Matshona Dhliwayo)
History will only remember those that remembered it and the best way to make history is to read history – ETC Wanyanwu
I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit – your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don’t accept your limitations, jump before you’re pushed, leap before you look. (Louise Mensch)
Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life. (Michael Bassey Johnson)
We’re basking in language itself. The silence of my friend. My love. The one beyond words in her silence. She is always eternally before. When she speaks it is shit, a gift, something to do. In our moment, of waiting, pointing, silent gear, what we went out for—that is pointing. Shit is the award. The award is shit. (Eileen Myles)
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence (Dana Wallace)
Man does not live by words alone despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them (Adlai Stevenson)
During these years in the small-talk wilderness, I also wondered why Americans valued friendliness with commerce so much. Was handing over cash the sacred rite of American capitalism—and of American life? On a day that I don’t spend money in America, I feel oddly depressed. It’s my main form of social interaction—as it is for millions of Americans who live alone or away from their families (Karan Mahajan)