“You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.” LifeActionPrayerMarriageStudyPrayingTestsActiveCelestialDoings Author:Tad R. Callister
“Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.” KnowsLifeSuccessKnowledgeStudyDevelopmentUglyButterflyMaximsThyselfKnow ThyselfUprisingPerniciousCaterpillars Author:Andre Gide
“They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box.” PeopleThinkingLifeHumansHomeFunnyDiesBornStudyHumorousBoxesStoresLive LifeScholarGroceriesGrocery StoresEssayistsOutside The BoxThink Outside The BoxCubicles Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.” KnowsLifeFeelsLongDoneStudyTakenConversationResearchAcademicDeceivingMisleadLong Conversations Author:Rachel Dolezal
“The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.” LifeHumansNaturalHuman BeingsStudyFlowerInstinctCharityFruitPaintPrivilegeMeadowsRefinementNatural Instinct Author:George Bancroft