"The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other."

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Source : Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.179, Syracuse University Press

Ameen Rihani

#Heart Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Once, I had to clip a jacket back to take a picture, and after they were done I forgot to remove the clip until someone noticed.”
“Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.”
“Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
“Iâ€™ve seen how you canâ€™t learn anything when youâ€™re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”

Source : David Weinberger (2014). “Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room”, p.13, Basic Books
“You create your own universe as you go along.”
“Sex education pretty much taught me about how my body works, why certain things happen when I'm around girls, and what sex was, and I think that there's a lack of clarity between sex and love - a lot of people think it's the same thing when it's not.”

Source : Source: djbooth.net
“If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people most of the time.”
“I belong to Jesus. He must have the right to use me without consulting me.”

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