Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."

William James

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction."

Malcolm Gladwell

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it."

David Starr Jordan

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"Perhaps everything has been said and thought and done before. That may be true. But without you, those same things may never be said or thought or done to your generation, in the place where you live."

Luke Renner

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

John Ruskin

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

Henry David Thoreau

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen."

Robert Bresson

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."

William Penn

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself."

Adelle Davis

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure."

Piero Ferrucci

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

Henry Van Dyke

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"A full cup must be carried steadily."

English Proverb

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."

William Shakespeare

Social Media and Haiti

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Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

Horace Mann

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."

Bette Davis

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."

Samuel Goldwyn

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore."

Alan Moore

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Quips & Quotes from Haiti

"There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better."

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi