"A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map."

-- Hiromi

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Mean Quotes

“The problem with these presidential debates like this is that you can't really prepare for them, because the questions are so individual and personal or even idiosyncratic. Secretary Hillary Clinton has a lot richer and deeper experience in doing these, obviously, than Donald Trump.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.”
“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.”
“Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.”
“Our compassion is the fruit of our spiritual lives; it actually arises spontaneously when formed by intention in our spiritual practice. Love and compassion are always the goods of the spiritual journey, and they are guided by divine wisdom, which then shapes compassion in the concrete situations of our existence.”

Source : Wayne Teasdale (2010). “A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life”, p.125, New World Library
“Casey Blake (a former Minnesota Twin, now with the Indians) is a good friend of mine, I'd like to see the Indians win.”
“Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?”
“Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.”

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