Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts

Friday, September 16, 2016

A selfish definition, a sudden light meaning...


Light within ...



"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it."

- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man and Prison Writings


Light beam 



'Despite attempts to undo colonialism's effects on the black psyche, the colonial stigma against African religions seems to be hardest to shake off...


Indigenous religions were not only outlawed but literally demonized not just on the continent but across the entire black diaspora."

Verona Spence-Adofo


Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one's courage. - Anais Nin 


Wednesday, August 25, 2010

COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE 3



actress Rosario Dawson as a blond

"Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation- these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives." -Jesse Herman Holmes


Judge Glenda Hatchett






"Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success." -Oscar Wilde