"No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it."

-- John Galt

#Mind Quotes #Matter Quotes #Modest Quotes

“The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!”
“Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.”
“In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.”
“I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.”
“It didnâ€™t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.”
“Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.”

Source : Daniel Goleman (2011). “Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships”, p.14, Random House
“The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.”
“Sometimes, life isn't about what you want to do but what you ought to do.”

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