It’s your life — but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else or a community or a pressure group, you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
Category: Quotes
Malcolm Gladwell
That’s your responsibility as a person, as a human being — to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don’t contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.
Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon – “A general theory of love”
Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.
Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Charlotte Bronte
But when one does not complain, one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle.