#esa

The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway. © Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001 ↗

— Kent M. Keith

#goodness #happiness #honesty #kindness #misattributed-to-mother-teresa

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#faith #mother-teresa #faith

His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi’s kiss I could taste the red burn of chili encrusted in the rich sweetness of melted chocolate. I breathed in his scent and it spoke to me of vanilla. The ink of my malu tattoo began to burn, searing markings of fiery joy. ↗

— Lani Wendt Young

#fiction #mythology #samoa #telesa-series #young-adult-book

For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all ↗

— William Shakespeare

#death #julius-caesar #death

Always follow your dreams, even if they lead you down a few dark alleys. ↗

— Teresa Mummert

#overcoming-obstacles #teresa-mummert #dreams

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind. ↗

— Ruth Buzzi

#i #influence #learned #mind #power

Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I don't believe that Mother Theresa and Hitler go to the same place. ↗

— David Zucker

#evidence #go #god #hitler #i

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#development #economic #economic development #mandated #new

We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact! ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

#contact #mr #only #rogers #sesame

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. ↗

— Henry Vaughan

#caesar #had #his #men #pen