It is the duty of the fortunate to help those who are suffering and that it is better to give than to receive. There are always miracles in the world, even when all seems hopeless. When there are no miracles, you can make them happen. With a simple act of kindness you can save another person from despair and that may just save their life. And this is the greatest miracle of all. The Happiest Boy on Earth: The incredible story of The Happiest Man on Earth
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Quote:- It is the effects on the world of successful active germ-line replicators that we see as adaptations.
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
Author:- Richard Dawkins
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.
Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905
Author:- Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
Category:- science
Quote:- It is the impermanence of the body that has convinced me of the eternality of the soul. Physics tells us that energy never dies, it merely assumes a different form. I never feel this more deeply than when gazing upon a dead body, a vessel emptied of its life force, a force that must surely now exist elsewhere.
The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
Author:- Steve Leder
Category:- hope
Quote:- It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.
Author:- Barack Obama
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.
Author:- Charles S. Peirce
Category:- science,philosophy
Quote:- It is the moving inspiration of our age, the only question worth struggling for: the question of how to lift humanity from poverty and despair.
Author:- Lucy Parsons
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. To admit that the false has any standing in court, that it ought to be handled gently because millions of morons cherish it and thousands of quacks make their livings propagating it—to admit this, as the more fatuous of the reconcilers of science and religion inevitably do, is to abandon a just cause to its enemies, cravenly and without excuse.
American Mercury
Author:- H.L. Mencken
Category:- science
Quote:- It is the pain in the heart that brings the most beautiful smile on the face.
Author:- Muslim Smiles
Category:- best
Quote:- It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.
Killosophy
Author:- Criss Jami
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is the pinnacle of arrogance to assume that whatever it is that the experts believe now is in fact the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Scientists have believed and public health officials have promoted many wrong things over the years, for both honorable, and not so honorable reasons. Sometimes the public health message is dead wrong.
Author:- Heather E. Heying
Category:- science
Quote:- It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Author:- Diogenes of Sinope
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that grows in secretThat bears fruit in secretThat ripened falls to the ground in secretAnd manures the parent treeOh the wicked tree of hatred and the secretThe sap rising and the tears falling.
Selected Poems
Author:- Stevie Smith
Category:- hope
Quote:- It is the public schools, however, which can be made, outside the homes, the greatest means of training decent self-respecting citizens. We have been so hotly engaged recently in discussing trade-schools and the higher education that the pitiable plight of the public-school system in the South has almost dropped from view. Of every five dollars spent for public education in the State of Georgia, the white schools get four dollars and the Negro one dollar; and even then the white public-school system, save in the cities, is bad and cries for reform. If this is true of the whites, what of the blacks? I am becoming more and more convinced, as I look upon the system of common-school training in the South, that the national government must soon step in and aid popular education in some way. To-day it has been only by the most strenuous efforts on the part of the thinking men of the South that the Negro’s share of the school fund has not been cut down to a pittance in some half-dozen States; and that movement not only is not dead, but in many communities is gaining strength. What in the name of reason does this nation expect of a people, poorly trained and hard pressed in severe economic competition, without political rights, and with ludicrously inadequate common-school facilities? What can it expect but crime and listlessness, offset here and there by the dogged struggles of the fortunate and more determined who are themselves buoyed by the hope that in due time the country will come to its senses?
The Souls of Black Folk
Author:- W.E.B. Du Bois
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.
Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship
Author:- Myles Munroe
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular. A systematic ribbon and button maker can become unpopular but essentially is not at all, inasmuch as he does not mean much by the very odd things he says (alas, and this is a popular art!). Socrates, on the other hand, was the most unpopular in Greece because he said the same thing as the simplest person but meant infinitely much by it. To be able to stick to one thing, to stick to it with ethical passion and undauntedness of spirit, to see the intrinsic duplexity of this one thought with the same impartiality, and at one and the same time to see the most profound earnestness and the greatest jest, the deepest tragedy and highest comedythis is unpopular in any age for anyone who has not realized that immediacy is over. But neither can what is essentially unpopular be learned by rote. More on that later.
Stages on Life's Way
Author:- Søren Kierkegaard
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
The Little Prince
Author:- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Category:- time
Quote:- It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.
Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others
Author:- Kelly Bryson
Category:- motivational