"You need to recognize that the risk of moving toward your dreams is much lower than the slow, everyday punishment you inflict on yourself by suppressing your dream"

-- Mel Robbins

#Dream Quotes #Moving Quotes #Punishment Quotes

“Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools were, in reality, democratic, there would be no need to bombard students with platitudes about democracy. They would simply act and behave democratically, and we know this does not happen. The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.”
“What should a good childrenâ€™s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.”
“The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"”
“Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them”

Source : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group
“Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.”
“I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.”
“There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.”
“Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.”

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