"The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company."

--

Barbara Holland

#Humble Quotes #Self Quotes #Ego Quotes

“A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.”
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”
“If you look at the list of the top wheat importers for 2010, almost half of them are Middle Eastern regimes: Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Tunisia. Egypt is the number-one importer of wheat in the entire world. Tunisia leads the entire world in per capita wheat consumption. So it's no wonder that the revolutions began with Tunisians waving baguettes in the streets and Egyptians wearing helmets made of bread.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“What's everybody's business is nobody's business ...”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2012). “A White Heron and Other Stories”, p.67, Courier Corporation
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.”
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

Source : Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press
“I just want some head in a comfortable bed.”
“Well I am from Annapolis Maryland. I went to High school in Baltimore, but I grew up in Annapolis. It was a cute town. We lived on a waterfront community. It was good, even though I don't really fit the preppy boater kind of style.”

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