"Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we have made it our duty to exercise them that if we come to engage in an activity of a different kind, it catches us off guard and without the slightest awareness that it might involve the application of those same virtues."

-- Marcel Proust

#Exercise Quotes #Mind Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.”
“Another werewolf thing. Like most animals, we spent a large part of our lives engaged in the three Fs of basic survival. Feeding, fighting and... reproduction.”
“Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.”
“Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.”
“Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire ...”

Source : Eliza Haywood (2004). “Fantomina and Other Works”, p.28, Broadview Press
“The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.”
“A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.”

Source : "Birds". Comedy by Aristophanes, 414 BC.
“Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.”

Source : Jessica Livingston (2008). “Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days”, p.18, Apress

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