"It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?"

-- Anais Nin

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Silence Quotes

“I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.”
“Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.”

Source : "Five minutes with Jackie Joyner-Kersee". Interview With Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. May 2, 2012.
“The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.”

Source : Robert M. Sapolsky (1997). “The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament”, Scribner Book Company
“Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.”
“If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.”
“I was born with music inside me”
“So far as Im concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.”
“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

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