"I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve."

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Source : "Drop Dead Healthy" by A.J. Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2012.

A. J. Jacobs

#Self Quotes #Self Improvement Quotes #Improvement Quotes

“In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.”
“My whole life I've been so self-conscious about being skinny. And just recently I don't care anymore. All insecurities are projected because of what you think others are saying about you, but they don't really matter at all. My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair-things I'm so very grateful for now.”
“The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fairy tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.”

Source : "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922" edited by Christoph Vitali, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, exhibition catalogue (p. 41), 1991.
“Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting.”
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
“I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”
“His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.”
“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”

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