"When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list."

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Source : "Once Upon A Life: Arabella Weir" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2011.

Arabella Weir

#Class Quotes #Goal Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.”
“I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.”
“Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.”
“I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.”
“You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye”
“We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.”
“Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized.”

Source : Mouni Sadhu (2005). “Meditation: An Outline for Practical Study”, p.50, Karnac Books
“Greater association with the Angels lifts our minds from ourselves and focuses them upon ways and means by which we too may assist in establishing God's Plan.”

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