Descansos Clarissa Quotes

#1. You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Samuel Johnson

#2. Words like aparigraha (non-possession) and samabhava (equability) gripped me. How to cultivate and preserve that equability was the question.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. The essence of polyphony lies precisely in the fact that the voices remain independent and, as such, are combined in a unity of a higher order than in homophony.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#4. I keep tellin' myself that it'll be fine.
You can't make everybody happy all of the time.

Colleen Hoover

#5. Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

Bob Riley

#6. Truth is a kaleidoscope - it alters with perspective

Sweety Shinde

#7. Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

#8. The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

Edward Abbey

#9. Strength is the outcome of need;

H.G.Wells

#10. If a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

Margaret Deland

#11. There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.

Jonathan Haidt