"No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism."

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Source : Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.110, Vintage

Emily St. John Mandel

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Survival Quotes

“You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.”

Source : Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton (2007). “How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life”, Simon and Schuster
“Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy. This fear has often the effect of courage: but it cannot prevail against the fierce and obstinate valor of people animated by fanaticism, or warm love of their country.”

Source : "De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties". Book by Claude Adrien Helvétius, 1758.
“Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.”
“If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Donald Trump places great faith in his son-in-law Jared Kushner.”
“All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning”
“PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.”
“And perhaps this has to do with what I sense is a turning away from the idea of religion as being about conserving a certain heritage from the past towards religion as having to do with how we orientate ourselves to the future, to all we truly long for, to hope.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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