Thoughts over a cup of coffee 3

Thoughts over a cup of coffee. Hello everyone!

I was looking for the author of the quote one of my friends, Clem, shared a few days ago, and today suddenly, this quota inspired me to write something from my life because it resonates so strongly, so I can't resist.

I have to write my story, or it will change me to whom I am not...

Have an easy week, everyone!

Thank God for food and another day!

Amen!

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Here is the quote:

There are times when you must speak, not because you will change the other person, but because if you don't talk, they have changed you.
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I found Quota, but the author is unknown. I like some other quotes on the same page, so I'm sharing them with you.
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If you’re lucky enough to do well, you must send the elevator back down.
[Jay Blades]

Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it–information is not knowledge. History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved to organize our ignorance of it.

It’s the record of what’s left on the record. It’s the plan of the positions taken when we stop the dance to note them down. It’s what’s left in the sieve when the centuries have run through it–a few stones, writing scraps, and cloth. It is no more “the past” than a birth certificate is a birth, a script is a performance, or a map is a journey.

It is the multiplication of the evidence of fallible and biased witnesses combined with incomplete accounts of actions not fully understood by the people who performed them. It’s only the best we can do, and often it falls short of that.
[Hilary Mantel]

Growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture. We’ve got to have enough. Always ask: What is the growth of what, why, and for whom, and who pays the cost? How long can it last? What’s the cost to the planet? How much is enough?
[Donella Meadows]

My choice early in life was to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.
[Harry S Truman, 33rd President of the United States]

I think [says the Duke of Omnium] that we whom chance has led to be meddlers in the game of politics sometimes give ourselves hardly time enough to believe what we are about …

It seems to me that many men – men whom you and I know–embrace the profession of politics not only without political convictions but without seeing that it is proper that they should entertain them. Chance brings a young man under the guidance of this or that older man.

He comes from a Whig family, as was my case, or from some old Tory stock, and loyalty keeps him accurate to the interests that first pushed him forward into the world. There is no conviction there.
[Anthony Trollope; The Prime Minister; h/t John Monaghan]

No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.
[Ann Landers]

Being rude is easy. It takes no effort and is a sign of weakness and insecurity. Kindness shows great self-discipline and strong self-esteem. Being kind is not always easy when dealing with rude people. Kindness is a sign of a person who has done much personal work and has gained great self-understanding and wisdom. Kindness is a sign of strength.
[unknown]

I do not think I will ever reach a stage where I will say, “This is what I believe. Finished.” What I believe is alive … and open to growth.
[Madeleine l’Engle]

Before you argue with someone, ask yourself if that person is even mentally mature enough to grasp the concept of a different perspective. Because if not, there’s absolutely no point.
[Helen Mirren]

How many highly intuitive, intelligent, and sane women and men have been labeled as crazy because they got too close to figuring out someone else’s bullshit.
[Alex Myles]

You learn grace when you finally learn that a person’s behavior has more to do with their internal struggle than it ever did with you.
[unknown]

When I was five, my mother always told me happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote, “Happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
[John Lennon]

As a Buddhist monk, I’m dedicated to promoting inter-religious harmony. All religions accept the value of warm-heartedness. Some believe in God; others have faith in karma. When I hear about fighting among religious people, I feel unfortunate–as if medicine has become poison.
[Dalai Lama]

Just because I disagree with you does not mean that I hate you. We need to relearn that in our society.
[Morgan Freeman]

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
[Stephen Covey]

His head was an hourglass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time.
[Mark Twain]

I want adulthood to feel more magical than it does. Where is the mystery? Why does no one ask me to solve a riddle before I enter a building? When was the last time I made a potion?
[unknown]

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Fall in love with some activity and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter.
[Richard Feynman