Raditude American Quotes & Sayings

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest! — Henry Home

Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,
With your harmonious choir
Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,
That my old care may cease ... — William Butler Yeats

People spend most of their lives believing fair is getting what you deserve, when in reality, fair is merely getting what you can handle. — Riley Mackenzie

It is better to have done something than to have been someone. — Claude Monet

In Christianity, it's very clear that the god we worship is equal to love. The bible says, 'God is love'. The god we worship was sacrificed, crucified on the cross, tortured, spit on, and was still forgiving. This is our highest example. — Mosab Hassan Yousef

Without loving-kindness, staying in pain is just warfare. — Pema Chodron

You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions. — Richard Rorty

To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves. — Gretel Ehrlich

Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful. — Peter L. Berger

I'm one of those people who knows how lucky she is. And every day, I look around the house, and I count my blessings. They're all there under that roof. — Sandra Bullock

Great leaders don't make excuses. They make things better. They are not unrealistic or blind to the difficulties they face. They simply are not discouraged by them. They never lose confidence that the problems can be solved. They maintain a positive attitude. Great leaders don't blame their people for not being where they ought to be; they take their people from where they are to where they need to be. Great leaders never lose faith that this is possible. — Henry T. Blackaby

There is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it. — Eleanor Porter

I stand in support of this common sense legislation to license everyone who wishes to purchase a gun ... I also believe that every new handgun sale or transfer should be registered in a national registry — Hillary Clinton

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. — Warren Buffett