"We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them."

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Source : "This Week in Fiction: Akhil Sharma". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 10, 2014.

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#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #May Quotes

“Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
“We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.”
“I used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.”
“Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.”
“The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas.”
“I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.”
“Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is trying to think about us - something we want more than praise?”

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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