"If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own"

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Source : Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

Donald O. Clifton

#Wind Quotes #Denial Quotes #True Strength Quotes

“I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.”
“Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.”
“The burial of feelings has begun.”

Source : Mark Strand (2007). “New Selected Poems”, Knopf
“You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.”
“He looked less handsome without the smile and glow in his eyes, but he also seemed more real. Being real will get me into trouble faster than any amount of charm.”
“Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.”
“This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.”
“Memories are meant to fade, Lenny. They're designed that way for a reason.”

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