"We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them."

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Source : Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.26, Macmillan

Sheila Heti

“I try and remind our viewers that climate is always in a state of flux and yes, the world has warmed over the last 25 years but claiming that Katrina is a product of global warming is absurd. We have had much stronger hurricanes hit the United States in the past, the Labor Day or Keys hurricane of 1935 and Camille in 1969 to name just two. There is much more development now on our shores.”
“Make your relationships more important than your accomplishments .”
“I was a man who played basketball and after I played basketball and before I played basketball I was going to be a psychologist, whereas most people who play their occupation is their definition - and then when they stop doing who they are, they become nothing.”

Source : Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.
“It's been amazing getting to go from city to city and perform for thousands of people. It's an amazing feeling, and the energy is crazy.”

Source : "Are 'The most humble people', Austine Mahone says" by Christina Garibaldi, www.mtv.com. June 11, 2013.
“Being on a mission-not thinking about myself and focusing on serving other people-is what brought me closer to God than anything else.”
“Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.”
“The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.”
“One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; â€” hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; â€” hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; â€” hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin â€” a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it â€” if such a thing were possible â€” even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.”

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