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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Interview with Margaret Truman, sitting in for host Edward R. Murrow, on Person to Person, CBS Television (May 27, 1955)
- Children
Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, “Is it reasonable?”
Richard Feynman1918–1988“What Do You Care What Other People Think?”, p. 28-29
- Thinking
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, “If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007“Knowing What’s Nice”, an essay from In These Times (2003)
- Happiness
Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Character
Keep the other person’s well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.
Betty White1922–2021If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) (2011)
- Truth & Lies
When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.
Michelle Obamaborn 1964Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia (25 July 2016)
- Character
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs1955–2011Commencement address at Stanford University (12 June 2005)
- Courage
If you drink much from a bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IIn context
- Comedy
‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.’
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IXIn context
- Writing
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIIIn context
Do not as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst like a puff’d and reckless libertine
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by OpheliaIn context
- Morality
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by PoloniusIn context
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by PoloniusIn context
- Friendship
- Money
‘Never,’ said my aunt, ‘be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.’
Charles Dickens1812–1870David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 15In context
- Virtue
Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter’s, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter LXVIIIIn context
- Character