McCarthy on Critics
It’s easy to take a swipe. And I’m like, just go the other way. Build it up. Put a little love and kindness in the world, and it does good things when you do that. — Melissa McCarthy
Crowfoot’s Last Words
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly … the breath of a buffalo … the shadow which … loses itself in the sunset. — Crowfoot’s last words, 1890
Jobs on Settling
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with…
Standing Bear on Nature
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too. So, he kept his children close to nature’s softening influence. — Standing Bear, Sioux Chief
Poehler on Failure
The question you have to ask yourself is: ‘How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?’ — Amy Poehler
Obama on Justice
Path to justice is one all of us must travel together. — Barack Obama
Standing Bear on Wilderness
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, the winding streams with tangled growth, as ‘wild’. Only to the white man was nature a ‘wilderness’ and only to him was it ‘infested’ with ‘wild’ animals and ‘savage’ people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded…
Dalai Lama on Kindness
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. — Dalai Lama