Each cat has a distinct purrsonality.
Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
The motive of success is not enough.
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.
You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.
Eventually you will be dead, but today you are not.
Hang on, did you just call me Angel?” I asked. “If I did?” “I don’t like it. ” He grinned. “It stays. Angel. ” He leaned across the table, raised his hand to my face, and brushed his thumb along one corner of my mouth. I pulled away, too late.
Interestingly, many of the organizational characteristics that have been identified as conducive to effectively managing diversity and as conducive to fostering innovation and creativity in the workplace are also important for enabling employees to voice their values.