"I think people talk about one love, but there is the need to love and the need to be loved are not the same thing and I suppose that's... and it's working that out is part of growing up."

-- Stephen Fry

#Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.”
“Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.”
“How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.”
“After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.”
“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.”

Source : Brandon Stanton (2015). “Humans of New York: Stories”, p.120, Pan Macmillan
“Can one alter oneÂ´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.”
“I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.”
“I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.”

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