"A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be."

-- Robert Fisk

#Letting Go Quotes #Looks Quotes #Should Quotes

“I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?”
“Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.”
“Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.”
“A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.”
“What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?”

Source : Bharati Mukherjee (2007). “The Middleman and Other Stories”, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”

Source : Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”
“I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.”
“If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.”

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