"We all get misinformation growing up about people who are different from ourselves."

-- Beverly Daniel Tatum

#Growing Up Quotes #People Quotes #Different Quotes

“Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.”
“Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.”

Source : Rupert Brooke, James Strachey, Keith Hale (1998). “Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914”, p.283, Yale University Press
“Those who employ their modest talents as best they can do make a contribution to a better human future.”
“Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.”
“The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.”
“Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.”
“Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?”

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