"Dreams: the place most of us get what we need."

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Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.355, Simon and Schuster

Amy Hempel

#Dream Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.”

Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.180, Read Books Ltd
“If you're not getting close to capsize, you're provably not pushing hard enough”
“If a person begins by telling you, 'Do not be offended at what I am going to say,' prepare yourself for something that she knows will certainly offend you.”

Source : Eliza Leslie (1839). “Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; with Full Instructions and Advice in Letter Writing [!]; Receiving Presents; Incorrect Words”, p.208
“Love is repaid by love alone!”
“Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate”

Source : Gordon Willard Allport (1958). “The Nature of Prejudice”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
“In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.”
“The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.”
“Living matter is the most powerful geological force.”

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