"If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you."

-- Tracy Kidder

#House Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.”
“Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you.”
“You have to remember one life, one deathâ€“this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)”
“Oh death, you can wait; keep your distance.”
“The one word you should forget when you start a new project is the word 'I' - you need to replace that word 'I' with the idea of 'everybody else.”
“One cannot kick against geography!”

Source : "The victory of Venizelos : a study of Greek politics, 1910-1918" by V. J. Seligman, (p. 31), 1920.
“Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing”
“I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.”

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