"People always say be true to yourself. But thatâ€™s misleading, because there are two selves. Thereâ€™s your short term self, and thereâ€™s your long term self. And if youâ€™re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays."

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Source : Brandon Stanton (2015). “Humans of New York: Stories”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

Brandon Stanton

#Self Quotes #Two Quotes #Long Quotes

“I choose my roles carefully.”
“Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.”
“For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.”
“A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation.”

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“If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.”
“The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.”
“No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.”
“A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.”

Source : Rene Daumal (2004). “Mount Analogue”, p.37, The Overlook Press

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