"But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can't know everything. You're not supposed to. This isn't a history book. It's just the world. It's a messy place."

-- William Landay

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, â€˜Donâ€™t be Sicilyâ€™.”
“If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.”
“I always say the beauty is in the mix.”
“The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.”

Source : Truman Capote (2012). “A Christmas Memory”, p.23, Modern Library
“Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.”

Source : "Joy Shtick". Interview with Kevin Kelly, Spencer Reiss, www.wired.com. August 1, 1998.
“Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on--our lost narcissism lives on--in our ego ideal.”
“The people who get what theyâ€™re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.”

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