Thought Provoking Quotes - Page 12

• A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Library

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• A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Desig". Book by Laurence G. Boldt (p. 100), 1993.

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• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

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  Libraries are our friends.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Library

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• We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Planets, Connected, Humans

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• True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

  Francis Chan

  Faith, Hope, Religious

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.97, David C Cook

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• Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Beautiful, Past, Promise

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• I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Dark, Sides, Touched

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• Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Lying, Infinite, Investment

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• What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Humans, Visible, Human Beings

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• We don't see profit as a blind instrument.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Blind, Profit, Instruments

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• My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Dream, Way, World

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• Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Events, This Generation, Generations

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• Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Planets, Our Time, Our Lives

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• May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Live Life, May, Easy

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• Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  "Theaetetus" by Plato,

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• People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

  Saul Bellow

  Reading, Book, People

  Saul Bellow (2016). “Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories”, p.10, Odyssey Editions

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• Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Religious, Curiosity, Wish

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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• Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Success, Sin, Fellows

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• It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

  Epictetus

  Happiness, Moving On, Attitude

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• I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

  Pope Francis

  Decision, Waiting, Mind

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.22, A&C Black

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• Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

  Pope Francis

  Doors, Church, Trying

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.55, A&C Black

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• An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

  Stephen Fry

  Funny, Witty, Book

  Stephen Fry (2010). “The Liar”, p.54, Random House

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• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Heart, Men, Animal

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

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