Mcguffeys Quotes & Sayings

To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people. — Haki R. Madhubuti

It came to me then, I am sure, for the first time, how promiscuous, how higgledy-piggledy was the whole of that jumble of mines and homes, collieries and potbanks, railway yards, canals, schools, forges and blast furnaces, churches, chapels, allotment hovels, a vast irregular agglomeration of ugly smoking accidents in which men lived as happy as frogs in a dustbin. Each thing jostled and damaged the other things about it, each thing ignored the other things about it; the smoke of the furnace defiled the potbank clay, the clatter of the railway deafened the worshipers in church, the public-house thrust corruption at the school doors, the dismal homes squeezed miserably amidst the monstrosities of industrialism, with an effect of groping imbecility. Humanity choked amidst its products, and all its energy went in increasing its disorder, like a blind stricken thing that struggles and sinks in a morass. — H.G.Wells

Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves. — Jack Kornfield

Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion? — Lily King

What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily "well" written are great for the person writing them. — Augusten Burroughs

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it. — Benjamin Disraeli

Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone — Thomas Jefferson

Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego. — Wayne Dyer

Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep. — Wes Craven