"The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning."

-- Alain de Botton

#Morning Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.”

Source : Elizabeth Berg (2002). “True To Form”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
“I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.”
“I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.”
“A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.”
“Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.”
“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”
“There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.”

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