Being The Best Person Possible Quotes

1. "Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings."
Author: Abu Hamid Al Ghazali

2. "I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds."
Author: Ariel Dorfman

3. "We are going home (we are Home, already and always). Home on this earth is being all levels of our awareness or consciousness in our own unique fashion. (138)"
Author: Charles L. Whitfield

4. ". . . to deny someone an education is not just a crime but a sin, because you are denying that person the opportunity to realize who he or she is meant to be."
Author: Firoozeh Dumas

5. "She's one of my best friends, thought Neverfell, and most of the time I don't know what is going on in her head at all."
Author: Frances Hardinge

6. "It will be said that a rational person accepts the world as mixed of good and evil with decent satisfaction and decent endurance. But this is exactly the attitude which I maintain to be defective... We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent."
Author: G.K. Chesterton

7. "For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest."
Author: J. Michael Straczynski

8. "When Isaac Newton embarked on his great program, he encountered a fundamental lack of definition where it was most needed. He began with a semantic sleight of hand: "I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all," he wrote deceptively. Defining these words was his very purpose. There were no agreed standards for weights and measures. Weight and measure were themselves vague terms. Latin seemed more reliable than English, precisely because it was less worn by everyday use, but the Romans had not possessed the necessary words either."
Author: James Gleick

9. "He contrived that she should be seated by him; and was sufficiently employed in looking out the best baked apple for her, and trying to make her help or advise him in his work, till Jane Fairfax was quite ready to sit down to the pianoforte again. That she was not immediately ready, Emma did suspect to arise from the state of her nerves; she had not yet possessed the instrument long enough to touch it without emotion; she must reason herself into the power of performance; and Emma could not but pity such feelings, whatever their origin, and could not but resolve never to expose them to her neighbour again."
Author: Jane Austen

10. "I wish I could sculpt my shadow into my night clone, and it could be out earning me money while I slept, instead of being folded up neatly in my underwear drawer like it is now."
Author: Jarod Kintz

11. "Yet I felt he was innocent in a way I was not, that I knew more about evil than he ever could, because he had parents who loved him and wanted the best for him, while I had grown up with Mummy."
Author: Jo Walton

12. "The person I think I am is terrified of the person I really am, terrified of what others would think of that person. What would they do to me if they knew the person I really was? Better to be safe! Better to hide the real person, starve the real person, bury the real person!"
Author: John Verdon

13. "A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on."
Author: Katherine Dunham

14. "So why haven't you called?" I ask her now.She looks uncomfortable. "I told you," she says, twirling the end of her braid around her finger. "School stuff.""Bullshit." She looks at me and opens her mouth, probably to lie again. But then she changes her mind. "I didn't know what to say." Her voice catches, so I know she's telling the truth. "And besides, you didn't call me, either." "Because you didn't call me!" Doesn't she know that the person who got kicked out of school (me) doesn't have to call the one who didn't(her)? She should have called to check up on me, to see how I was doing. She should have come over with lemonades and ice cream, keeping me company, helping me nurse my broken heart. That's what best friends do. It's so common it's cliché."
Author: Lauren Barnholdt

15. "Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance."
Author: Li Na

16. "I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed."
Author: Mario Lopez

17. "Poetry is like an innocent young maiden who is extremely beautiful, and whom many other maidens, who are the other fields of knowledge, are careful to enrich, polish, and adorn, and she must be served by all of them. Her alchemy is such that the person who knows how to treat her will turn her into purest gold of inestimable value...she should not be allowed in the company of scoundrels or the ignorant mob incapable of knowing or appreciating the treasures that lie within her."
Author: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

18. "Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. Too-lateness is potentially every moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it's no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it's time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now."
Author: Russell Hoban

19. "A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again."
Author: Stephen King

20. "The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are."
Author: Tom Spanbauer

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