Forlongs Quotes & Sayings

I try to do the right thing, Holden. But there are times when it's not obvious what that is." "I agree with you," Holden said. "Right up to the part where you tell me this is one of those times. — James S.A. Corey

Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum. — Denis Waitley

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said. — John Piper

You may have committed a very bad fault but if you repent for it a lot; if you repent 'heartily' for it; the fault will have to go away. But people don't repent 'heartily', do they? They just say superficially that 'it was my fault'! — Dada Bhagwan

All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it. — Dalai Lama

the righteous mind is like a tongue with six taste receptors. Secular Western moralities are like cuisines that try to activate just one or two of these receptors - either concerns about harm and suffering, or concerns about fairness and injustice. But people have so many other powerful moral intuitions, such as those related to liberty, loyalty, authority, and sanctity. — Anonymous

It's for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But either way keep the growth mindset in your thoughts then when you bump up against obstacles you can turn to it, it will always be there for you showing you a path into the future. — Carol S. Dweck

Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand. — Abraham Maslow

I get it," Richard said. "But is that all we are? Just digital Crips and Bloods? — Neal Stephenson

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is. — Lord Chesterfield

When I'm filming something, I quite forget that it's all still got to come together and be edited. I'm so engrossed in trying to do the best I can on a day to day basis that I forget that people will see it and judge it. — Yasmin Paige

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff. — Abbie Cornish