"Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned."

-- Ignazio Silone

#Destiny Quotes #Invention Quotes

“When I know too much I get bored too fast.”
“They say things happen for a reason You don't do them, they won't.”

Source : Song: Life, Love and Laughter, Album: Pass It Around, 2008
“There's no reason to yell at anybody.”
“When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.”
“To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.”
“It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.”
“Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art....”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.71, Simon and Schuster
“The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.”

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