I thought a quotation thread would give us all good food of thought !
What noted people have said…just about every walk of life.
Pour the best quotations you read…and share with members. I’ll try putting up one good one on daily basis.
-Raju
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***“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny
individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
– Ayn Rand
***Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
– Leo Tolstoy
***Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality
that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we
have told it to the same person?
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
***“To be offended by the visual appearance of another person is prejudice,
akin to racism. The right to exist, uncovered, should hold precedence
over the right not to view this, for the objection is irrational.”
–Terri Webb
***The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your
problems are your own. You don’t blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.
–Albert Ellis
***You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
***“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination;
do not become the slave of your model.”
– Vincent van Gogh
***True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people
feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has
beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
– Hugh Prather
***“The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being
looked at than how.”
– Margaret Atwood
“In order to ‘give a meaning to the world,’ one has to feel involved in
what he frames through the viewfinder.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
