"I'm not sure a person ever really reveals the whole of himsels or herself to another person, and I'm not sure we should. Or rather, just because you don't, it doesn't mean you can't have a meaningful relationship with another person. It's important to remember that this idea of confessing your most shameful, embarrassing stories and self to someone else as an expression of love and intimacy is a relatively recent phenomenon, and a new definition of what it means to be close to someone. After all, the self is by its nature secretive."

-- Hanya Yanagihara

#Meaningful Quotes #Important Quotes #Remember Quotes

“Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1004, Ravenio Books
“When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.”

Source : Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.49, Penguin
“I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is important.”
“I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.”
“At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.”
“Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires in each of us that can never be fulfilled. I suspect that much of our restlessness is a return on this investment.”

Source : Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.11, Paraclete Press
“And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.101, Pan Macmillan
“I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because its not fair.”

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