"Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity."

- Herman Melville (via quotestuff)

(via quotestuff)

"Try not to confuse attachment and love. Attachment is about dependency and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give to you because you’re empty. It is about what you can give other because you’re already full."

- Yasmin Mogahed

"The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."

- Maria Montessori

"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure."

- S.I. Hayakawa (via theaccidentalexecutive)

(via a-thousand-words)

"To change and to change for the better are two different things."

- German proverb

"The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you."

- David Nicholls (via quotewhore)

"The difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says “Go!” - a leader says “Let’s go!”."

- E. M. Kelly