Social Quotes
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)"
"Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell."
"My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level."
"You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the state."
"With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing."
"THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow."
"Heraclitus once said "we cannot exist without strife" but that does not mean we cannot co-exist without it."
"Justice is a social construct. It’s well known that the physical universe isn’t fair. Nevertheless, it’s difficult to decide which is more provoking: good people suffering or evil people prospering."
"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."
"S.M."Social Media or Social Menace?I'll leave it to you to work out."
"Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt."
"I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues."
"People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( "Le ciel c'est l'autre" )"
"A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation, increases awareness, boosts self-confidence, and offers the possibility of hope."
"Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age."
"The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor."
"Helping People is Fun. Getting to a Position to help is Not."
"5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media:1 Post content that add value2 Spread positivity3 Create steady stream of info4 Make an impact5 Be yourself"
"Tweet others the way you want to be tweeted."
"Tweet others the way you want to want to be tweeted."
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.", 1953)"
"the measure of achievements in life are directly related to the acquire knowledge, not to the social recognition."
"If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform."
"Mogo living brings about true freedom. When you have the inner conviction to do the most good and the least harm, you are free to say no to media, social, and peer pressures. You are free from a nagging sense that your life does not have value or meaning. You are free to imagine and then create a truly successful (in the deepest meaning on the word) life. You are free to be at peace with yourself and all those whom your life touches."
Zoe Weil, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life
"The clerk is looking at me. His expression hasn't changed. What I want to do is punch a hole in the front of the desk, reach through, grab his balls, and make him sing The Mickey Mouse Club song. But these days, I'm working on the theory that killing everyone I don't like might be counterproductive. I'm learning to use my indoor voice like a big boy, so I smile back at the clerk."
"Success largely depends on the relationships you build along the journey."
"It’s not about describing someone as that’s typically an attempt to make whatever they are comfortable for whoever we are. Instead, we may wish to skip the agenda of the description and embrace the wonder of the person."
"What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I’d better figure out what I rubbing up against."
"Don't waste your energy in fighting the old. Use it to build the new."
"He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands"
"If we are not taught about love when our brains and hearts are forming, we may never even recognize it when it stands in front of us. We may even run from it. We would miss out on the one thing that makes life worth living."
"Only human can learn from others’ mistakes, and one who doesn’t, ceases to become a human."
"Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary."
"Oh stupid, silly, awkward me;Will I never, ever see?People babble, speak, and talk;All I can do is stand and gawk!"
"Friendship, like other kinds of altruism, is vulnerable to cheaters, and we have a special name for them: fair-weather friends. These sham friends reap the benefits of associating with a valuable person and mimic signs of warmth in an effort to become valued themselves. But when a little rain falls, they are nowhere in sight."
"I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils."
"People who represent social organization in a country are a force in that country"
"Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable “tin ear” makes it impossible to hear any signs of empathy or capture the vibrant qualities of ‘sharing’. ("Only needed a light ")"
"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
Rebecca McNutt, Mandy and Alecto: The Collected Smog City Book Series
"Life could have been way easier if we can just use "Please, do not disturb" sign in our social lives!"
"Some say God caught them even before they fell."
"No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it."
"I saw America's economy last night, people raiding dumpsters at a higher rate than normal in my home town. Digging through garbage shouldn't be a career. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans."
"A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero."
"Politics nowadays is a game unlike every other game, only for the willing hearts and strong minds"
"The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made."
"Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman."
"The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize litterers) as by the signaling of a social norm: This is the kind of place where people obey the rules."
Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
"If we are a body, then we are on that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease."
Christena Cleveland, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces That Keep Us Apart
"If we are a body, then we are one that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease."
Christena Cleveland, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces That Keep Us Apart
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