"I don't use "feelings" as a diminutive word. I'm trying to take feelings back. I think of everyone on the internet whose response to everything is: "#Feelings! This is important, this is real, this is significant!" That connects to power, too. Wanting to feel like you have power and control over your life."

-- Melissa Gira Grant

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Over You Quotes

“Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.”
“it's not until you become seriously ill and you nearly die and you're at home for 6 months, that you suddenly stop to realize that this isn't the way I intended it to be in the beginning. Everything that you've done falls away and start wondering why you went through all that rock business stuff.”
“Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.”
“A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.”
“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously”
“People are inspired to do remarkable things to find and be with the one they love.”
“A lot of people like cats. Take the Pope, for example: I read recently that he was a cat-oholic!”
“Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.”

Source : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Snack Thief”, p.125, Pan Macmillan

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