Van Wyck Brooks Quote – To Find Our Bad Traits

“Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.” – Van Wyck Brooks
Read more“Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.” – Van Wyck Brooks
Read more“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.” – Jonathan Swift
Read more“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ― Aristotle
Read more“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.” – Dennis Wholey
Read more“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage doesn’t need to be lived again.” – Maya Angelou
Read more“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Read more“But—I ask you—is it better to be resigned to a life without ideals. . . or rather, . . . to seek the truth, goodness, justice, working for a world that reflects the beauty of God, even at the cost of facing the trials it may involve?” – Pope Francis
Read more“Truth has a power of its own….A poem can inspire a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution. Civil disobedience can arouse people and provoke us to think.” – Howard Zinn
Read more“Tomorrow is another day.”
Read more“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” ― Mother Teresa
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