What's Your Favorite Quote?

It means that one must never sacrifice one's convictions to the opinions or wishes of others (which is the virtue of Integrity)

that one must never attempt to fake reality in any manner (which is the virtue of Honesty)

that one must never seek or grant the unearned and undeserved, neither in matter nor in spirit (which is the virtue of Justice).

It means that one must never desire effects without causes,

and that one must never enact a cause without assuming full responsibility for its effects

that one must never act like a zombie, i.e. without knowing one's own purposes and motives

that one must never make any decisions, form any convictions or seek any values out of context, i.e. apart from or against the total, integrated sum of one's knowledge

and, above all, that one must never seek to get away with contradictions.
~Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness

Via Neverisms: A Quotation Lover's Guide to Things You Should Never Do, Never Say, or Never Forget , by Mardy Grothe
"In a discussion of "Objectivist Ethics" in The Virtue of Selfishness (1964), Ayn Rand asserted that mankind's basic virtue was rationality. By contrast, she argued that man's basic vice - and the source of all evil - is irrationality, a rejection of reason. Irrationality is not ignorance, which is simply not knowing, or blindness, which is not seeing. Irrationality is something far more pernicious she maintained, and far more dangerous. It is "a refusal to see" and "a refusal to know."

"Keep your enemies close, but your alcohol closer."
~ScienceChic

Made this one up myself tonight after a friend posted that they'd be "happy to keep an eye on anyone's beer" whose power was out and were in need of refrigeration space.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
Anthony de Mello


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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
~Viktor E. Frankl

This one I had to add to my sig because I am still thinking about it almost a week after I discovered it. When I was younger I needed someone to speak out for me, to believe in me, to stick up for me when I didn't have the courage to do so myself. Definitely I would like to be more fiercely protective of my friends and family now and stop letting people get away with bullsh** just for the sake of being politically correct and not rocking the boat publicly. I will not apologize for speaking the truth bluntly, honestly, and forthrightly; if the truth hurts, it's because of fear and fear should never be an excuse to stop trying to get better. Though, at the same time, I need to learn to let things go that are in the past and don't affect me anymore. It's a fun balance to find, I look forward to the growth and introspection!

From Intellectual Takeout

"The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because sh** worked out. They got that way because sh** went wrong, and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it.

Those women are my superheroes."
~Elizabeth Gilbert
www.elizabethgilbert.com/wisdom-age-wome...ed-me-why-i-had-ded/