Leggere Quotes & Sayings

According to Free Trait Theory, we are born and culturally endowed with certain personality traits - introversion, for example - but we can and do act out of character in the service of "core personal projects."
In other words, introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly. Free Trait Theory explains why an introvert might throw his extroverted wife a surprise party or join the PTA at his daughter's school. It explains how it's possible for an extroverted scientist to behave with reserve in her laboratory, for an agreeable person to act hard-nosed during a business negotiation, and for a cantankerous uncle to treat his niece tenderly when he takes her out for ice cream. — Susan Cain

Life is water dancing to the tune of solids." Without that dance, there could be no life. — Gerald H. Pollack

We have eternity to stretch our legs in. — G.K. Chesterton

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life. — Tryon Edwards

There exists no objective basis on which to elevate one species above another. — Richard Dawkins

Not allowing people to go through their pain, and protecting them from it, may turn out to be a kind of over-protection, which in turn implies a certain lack of respect for the integrity and the intrinsic nature and the future development of the individual. — Abraham H. Maslow

There are voices you can silence. — Amy Reed

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own. — Jim Harrison

Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The most important person to thank is ... my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing. — Edward B. Lewis

Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone. — Gordon G. Chang