“I prefer to stay alive and be criticized than be sympathized.”
Golda Meir (1898–1978) former prime minister of Israel
Fallaci interview (1973)
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Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918) Emperor of All the Russias, Grand Duke of Finland and King of Poland By the Grace of God
As quoted in [Richard Wortman, Scenarios of Power: From Alexander II to the abdication of Nicholas II, https://books.google.com/books?id=wGp4M2DzfMQC&pg=PA341, 1995, Princeton University Press, 0-691-02947-4, 341–]
“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Khalil Gibran book The Prophet
The Prophet (1923)
Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter
"Ocean Eyes" — though her breakthrough hit after she posted her performance of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d--DyK0wtYo to SoundCloud for her dance teacher on 18 November 2015, the lyrics were written entirely by her brother Finneas O'Connell, who also collaborates with her on most of her other musical work. · Official Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viimfQi_pUw <br class="br">Misattributed
Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter
"everything i wanted" · First live performance, Mexico City (12 December 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgdG91aCsPU <br class="br">Singles (2017 - )
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
As quoted in "A Beautiful Child" in Music for Chameleons (1980) by Truman Capote
“You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.”
Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) Indian religious leader
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Managing Teams in a Week (2013) https://books.google.ae/books?idqZjO9_ov74EC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIIDAB#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, Secrets of Success at Work – 50 techniques to excel (2014) https://books.google.ae/books?id4S7vAgAAQBAJ&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIJjAC#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, p.107
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Variant: Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Context: O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
“Begum Rokeya had dreamt of a society where women would be magistrates, judges and barristers”
Begum Rokeya (1880–1932) Bengali feminist writer and social worker
Context: Begum Rokeya had dreamt of a society where women would be magistrates, judges and barristers and that has come true as many women are already there in such posts.
“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena
Source: Letters to Milena