The World Motivation
You attract poverty when you lack value for time
“You need to use the instrument that the people desire to captivate them back to things that are right”
“Joblessness is a time for reflection”
“If God is for you, nothing can stand against you”
“Understanding who you are within comes through self- awareness and self-education”
“Illiteracy is the number one promoter of ignorance.”
“Show the youth the consequences of their actions and why they should choose wisely”
“You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...”
“...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.”
“...it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait -- a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished. And, though this is an absorbing pursuit, nevertheless, the painters are apt to end pessimists. For however handsome and merry may be the face, however rich the background, in the first rough sketch of each portrait, yet with every added stroke of the brush, with every tiny readjustment of the 'values,' with every modification of the chiaroscuro, the eyes looking out at you grow more disquieting. And, finally, it is your”
“The earth has been patient with us for a very long time. It will wait a little longer. But the morning — this morning, with its particular light and its particular silence — will not.”
“If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.”
“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all “on our own journey,” then moral assessment becomes completely impossible or is speciesist. It is impossible because if we are all “on our own journey,” then there is nothing to say to the racist, sexist, anti-semite, homophobe, etc. If we say that those forms of discrimination are morally bad, but, with respect to animals, we are all “on our own journey” and we cannot make moral assessments about, for instance, dairy consumption, then we are simply being speciesist and not applying the same moral analysis to nonhumans that we apply to the human context.”