"I really grew up more of a people pleaser and I just wanted to make people happy, and maybe didn't always say exactly how I was feeling."

-- Rachele Brooke Smith

#People Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Grew Up Quotes

“Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio Alger were alive today, heÊ¼d want to be just like Dr. Palmisano, one of the true Renaissance men IÊ¼ve had the privilege and pleasure of knowing! On Leadership continues in his tradition of excellence.”
“Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. Thatâ€™s a more fruitful way to be.”
“I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.”

Source : Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sonnet”
“What parents teach is themselves, as models of what is human - by their moods, their reactions, their facial expressions and actions. These are the real things parents need to be aware of, and of how they affect their children. Allow them to know you, and it might become easier for them to learn about themselves.”

Source : Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”
“One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.”
“Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.”
“I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.”
“The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities”

Source : Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.275, A&C Black

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