Alnur Gaborone Quotes & Sayings

Friendship is not enjoyable unless we take up its expressive challenges. If a person surrounds himself with "friends" who simply reaffirm his public persona, who never question his dreams and desires, who never force him to try out new ways of being, he misses out on the opportunities friendship presents. A true friend is someone we can occasionally be crazy with, someone who does not expect us to be always true to form. It is someone who shares our goal of self-realization, and therefore is willing to share the risks that any increase in complexity entails. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty! — Major Thomas

Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant. — Lauren Bacall

Most effective altruists are not saints but ordinary people like you and me, so very few effective altruists claim to live a fully ethical life. Most of them are somewhere on the continuum between a minimally acceptable ethical life and a fully ethical life. That doesn't mean that they are constantly feeling guilty about not being morally perfect. Effective altruists don't see a lot of point in feeling guilty. They prefer to focus on the good they are doing. Some of them are content to know they are doing something significant to make the world a better place. Many of them like to challenge themselves, to do a little better this year than last year. — Peter Singer

The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script. — Brigid Brannagh

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends. — Marilyn Manson

I am more comfortable on set than I am in my own home. — Jennifer Lynch

Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live. — Marty Rubin

The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim. — Teddy Thompson

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means. — James Rosenquist