"We need much less than we think we need."

-- Maya Angelou

#Inspirational Quotes #Thinking Quotes #What Matters Quotes

“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "could have, might have, should have,and might have been." Create yourself and live the story of your own unique life.”
“Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'”
“Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.”
“I have no baggage in politics. I've never been a politician. I don't owe anybody anything.”
“Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”

Source : Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”
“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
“The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.”

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