"I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of a mystery. It is a mystery at an immediate level in the sense that no person is entirely knowable."

-- Stephanie Dowrick

#Self Quotes #Levels Quotes #Mystery Quotes

“It's fun to be at the edges, and tough to be squeezed in between.”
“Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.”
“If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.”
“People build up a picture of Johnny Depp as being some sort of weird pirate character. In reality he's incredibly nice... one of the nicest people I've ever met.”
“Martial arts has been a way of life for me since I was a young kid. It created a discipline and respect for everything. Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.”
“Even in the worst time of life, if you are still breathing, that means you are still alive. If you are still here, you haven't accomplished what is still to be accomplished. The most important part of your life is still ahead of you.”
“The Almighty is a wonderful handicapper: He will not give us everything.”

Source : Margot Asquith (2014). “Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street”, p.147, Oxford University Press, USA
“We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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