"The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail."

-- Paul Murray

#Acceptance Quotes #Maturity Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.”
“How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!”
“Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.”
“A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.”
“So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.”

Source : "Interview with Edward Luck, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. August 1, 2011.
“I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.”
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”
“If you want to succeed in business in any capacity - employee, manager, or owner - you must have a solid, comprehensive understanding of what business principles actually are and how they actually work.”

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