Quotes & Sayings About International Aids Day

It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group. — Charles Darwin

Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules. — Martha Beck

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time. — John C. Maxwell

I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop my desires and sorrows from being violent ones); what impels me, secretly and obstinately, is not tactical: I accept and I affirm, irrespective of the true and the false, of success and failure; I am withdrawn from all finality, I live according to chance ... — Roland Barthes

Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them. — Shunryu Suzuki

I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details of my life, so I've written them all down. — Alicia Keys

There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter. — Henri Bergson

Hope alone can never bring success without hard work. — D. Aswini

Look, I could go on and on and on telling you why I hate myself, but it's so self-centered ... and I'm not like that. I'm a giver. So I'd rather branch out and start giving it to everyone else. — Joan Rivers

Only cactuses had perennial appeal. And cactuses were of no interest to her. — Milan Kundera