"This house isn't mine anymore, but the memories are; the memories can't be sold. The building that housed my once-upon-a-time dreams stands for someone else now, as it did for the people before us, and I feel happy to let it go. Happy that I can begin again, anew, though bearing the scars of before. They represent wounds that have healed."

-- Cecelia Ahern

#Dream Quotes #Memories Quotes #People Quotes

“Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be rejected... One sentence ... sums up the dark and deadly pages of Chistian history: "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."”
“Belief forms behavior.”

Source : David Klinghoffer (2007). “Shattered Tablets: Why We Ignore the Ten Commandments at Our Peril”, p.193, Image
“To run a successful business, you have to be tough.”
“I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.”
“Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.”
“I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.”
“The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.”

Source : Erving Goffman (2009). “Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity”, p.138, Simon and Schuster
“One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.”

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