"No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back."

-- AndrÃ© Aciman

#Mistake Quotes #Self Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
“Success isn't about winning everything; itâ€™s about achieving your dream, be that teaching middle school or flying jets. And no matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.”

Source : "Zosia Mamet on Why She Won't Lean In, Thanks", www.glamour.com. May 15, 2014.
“Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.”
“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.”

Source : Christina Georgina Rossetti, Maria Keaton (2004). “Prose Works of Christina Rossetti”, Thoemmes Pr
“But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.”

Source : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.
“As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.”
“Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don't say "I'm going to do such and such" - it already has happened. Now, is consciousness real? It exists and it is very powerful. The idea is to have this mesh between your consciousness - your visualization - and the so-called material world.”
“I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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