"There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them."

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Source : Naomi Shihab Nye, “Spruce Street, Berkeley”

Naomi Shihab Nye

#Light Quotes #Forget Quotes #Forget You Quotes

“Whatever the reasons that I turn things down, I'm always happy when there's a good result, and I can enjoy it as a movie, you know? I don't feel like, 'Oh man, that was really good. I should have done it.' You have to make the decisions you have to make, whether it has to do with your family or repeating a character or whatever it is.”
“Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.”
“In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.”
“You make yourself what you are.Â You have control of your own destiny.”
“Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream.”
“Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
“I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.”
“The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.”

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