The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Maimonides

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Plutarch

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Pindar

#christmas
#giving
#affection

“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” — John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States

#children
#jfk
#thefuture

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

Les Brown

#fate

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

#honesty
#profitable
#dishonesty
#plato
#lies

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Roger Miller

#Rain
#walk

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

Arthur Conan Doyle

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”

Albert Einstein

#truth
#lies
#trust

Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence.

Charles Krauthammer

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Will Durant

#chaos
#liberty
#civilization

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” ― Amit Ray

#kindness
#positivity

Scarves, mittens, and hats are a great way to express your personality in the cold weather.

Brad Goreski

#hats
#scarves
#mittens
#coldweather

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

– Elbert Hubbard

#anxiety
#worry
#fear

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

P. J. O'Rourke

"The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking.”

Rob Long

"A man's true character comes out when he's drunk." - Charlie Chaplin

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

#kindness
#religion
#dalailama
#peace

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Martin Luther King,

This is Rex.

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

#music
#nietsche
#mentalhealth

Mahatma Gandhi

"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members"

Not to invent yourself is to be false. To follow preordained rules is a profound betrayal of what it means to be human.

David Starkey

#betrayal
#human

“No legacy is so rich as honesty''

William Shakespeare

#truth
#honesty
#shakespeare

"It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult”

Queen Elizabeth II

#queenelizabeth
#positivity

It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

David Feherty

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Voltaire