Better's Today

James Baldwin on limiting education

vutran | June 28, 2020, 2:19 p.m.

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”

― James Baldwin

Nelson Mandela on the education of hatred

vutran | June 25, 2020, 8:27 p.m.

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

Jim Rohn on developing our own philosophy

vutran | June 24, 2020, 5:59 p.m.

"Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places."

— Jim Rohn

Miles Davis on making the mosts of mistakes

vutran | June 24, 2020, 5:57 p.m.

"When you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that makes it good or bad."

— Miles Davis

Henry David Thoreau on slow growth

vutran | June 24, 2020, 5:52 p.m.

“The more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly at first, as if contending with difficulties, and so are solidified and perfected.”

— Henry David Thoreau