Maha

“Don’t Be Afraid to Ask for What You Want. “I’d really like a part in the school play. ” Forget about working so hard and doing such a good job that people come to you with opportunities. In the real world, people get very little that they don’t ask for.”
― Albert J. Bernstein, Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry

“As for the use of the bomb, she would say, “It was war and we had to expect it.” And then she would add, “Shikata ga nai,” a Japanese expression as common as, and corresponding to, the Russian word “nichevo”: “It can’t be helped. Oh, well. Too bad.” Dr. Fujii said approximately the same thing about the use of the bomb to Father Kleinsorge one evening, in German: “Da ist nichts zu machen. There’s nothing to be done about it.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“Emotional Vampires never grow up. Throughout their lives, they see themselves as victims of fate and the unpredictability of others. Stuff happens, and they just respond to it. As a result, they have no opportunity to learn from their mistakes, and they just keep on making the same ones over and over.”
― Albert J. Bernstein, Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry

“There is no such thing as something for nothing. We live in an ordered universe with checks and balances. The law is value earned is according to value provided.”
― Hendrith Smith, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic