"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."

-- J. K. Rowling

#Inspirational Quotes #Literature Quotes #Knack Quotes

“I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.”
“The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.”
“Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.”

Source : William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”
“Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.”

Source : Adam Phillips (2016). “On Flirtation”, p.54, Faber & Faber
“Anytime I am around a male body part it is kind of exiting.”
“I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.”
“Behind a cold face there is always an insecure heart.”
“Think about every time you've seen someone being objectified, abused, enslaved. We see it constantly on the TV, in magazines, on the Internet. We've become numb, so we do nothing. The accumulation of passivity might make reading about that exploitation uncomfortable. And sometimes when I'm writing, I think of it like this: "People seem to like garbage, so here is what garbage smells like..."”

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