Top 11 Trefil Edina Quotes
#1. Am I as vigilant in demanding the eradication of my own bigotry as I am in demanding the eradication of theirs?
The Arbinger Institute
#3. Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#4. There's no greater absurdity than taking everything seriously.
Baltasar Gracian
#5. Well, you know what happens to lovers: whenever they see a lyre, a garment or anything else that their beloved is accustomed to use, they know the lyre, and the image of the boy to whom it belongs comes into their mind.
Plato
#6. Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
Henry Ward Beecher
#7. So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [ ... ] Learning to live is learning to let go.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#8. Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.
Neil Steinberg
#9. It seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.
Orson Scott Card
#10. We must bear in mind that the character which a man exhibits in the latter half if his life is not always, though it often is, his original character developed or withered, attenuated or enlarged; it is sometimes the exact reverse, like a garment that has been turned.
Marcel Proust
