Ricarda Huch Quotes & Sayings

Without the energy that lifts mountains, how am I to live? — Mirabai

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself. — Bill McCartney

The easier your hair is to manage the happier you'll be with it and the prettier you'll feel. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind. — Joseph Goldstein

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God. — Thomas Carlyle

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it. — Josemaria Escriva

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success. — John McDonald

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor. — Joseph Addison

When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings, racial epithets, and "whites only" signs. These images make it easy to forget that many wonderful, goodhearted white people who were generous to others, respectful of their neighbors, and even kind to their black maids, gardeners, or shoe shiners
and wished them well
nevertheless went to the polls and voted for racial segregation ... Our understanding of racism is therefore shaped by the most extreme expressions of individual bigotry, not by the way in which it functions naturally, almost invisibly (and sometimes with genuinely benign intent), when it is embedded in the structure of a social system. — Michelle Alexander

A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field. — Michael Pollan

Is that what you think this is about? Your letting me die? I don't know what clouds your judgement worse. Your guilt or your antiquated sense of morality. Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me. But why... Why on God's earth--??!
Is he still alive!!?? — Judd Winick