Giacomo Baessato Quotes

#1. The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. 'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

James Dobson

#3. Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

Samuel Johnson

#4. I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes from without. We need the guidance of both ancient wisdom and modern science to get the balance right.

Jonathan Haidt

#5. We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.

Brandon Mull

#6. Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#7. Integrity, in my view, starts with the individual human being and grows in a compounded manner from there. The citizen must be an 'intelligence minuteman.

Robert David Steele

#8. I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

Ethel Waters

#9. Simi? You got some free time? (Kat)
Of course I do. You know akri on Olympus with that heifer-goddess I want to eat, but he won't let the Simi have no dinner. So why you calling me, little akra-kitty? (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Hugh Hefner