Quotes of Ruth Benedict

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In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day in, day out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?

- Ruth Benedict

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“ If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ”

- William M. Thackery

“ What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ”

- Helen Keller

“ It is easier to believe a lie than to claim parts of you that have been scattered and buried. Your willingness to search for what's been lost merely points to how immensely powerful you are. ”

- Kirstyn Lazur

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ If you are happy with the person you are becoming, and you can understand that the journey is long and the processes are slow; you are on the right track no matter what your current situation is. ”

- Joshua Lynott

“ Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ A blooming relationship even if it’s someone else’s, makes me so happy and reinstates my faith in love... ”

- Nitya Prakash

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ So many reasons to hate and still I choose to love anyway... ”

- Samiha Totanji

“ In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. ”

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

“ The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness. ”

- Tatjana Ostojic

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ Those who complain about being constrained in their job and life should ask themselves one simple question. Are you constrained by chains or in your own mind? ”

- RJ Intindola

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac