#pare

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. ↗

— Aristotle

#complete #formation #ground #habit #indeed

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts. ↗

— Matthew Ashford

#i #nuts #prepared #theatre

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ↗

— George Arliss

#humility #life #minds #only #our

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#both #cancer #everything #fighting #get

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#banks #be prepared #best #central #divine

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#college #education #excellent #existence #financial

That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility. ↗

— Deborah A. Beasley

#deborah-beasley #family-relationships #foster-care #parenting #psycology

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#compare #example #fifty #for example #forty

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#misfortune #parent #rashness #unhappy

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#death #nearest #parents #store #taking