"Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges."

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Judith Viorst

#Effort Quotes #Body Quotes #Desperate Quotes

“The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.”
“A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.”
“As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited
“You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world is an emanation of your own mind, your own thinking and your own imagination. You created this world.”
“If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination.”
“The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.”
“To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.”
“Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.”

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