"Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones."

-- Junot Diaz

#Morning Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Paper Quotes

“The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions.”
“Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.”
“Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.”
“The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell”

Source : Heinz Kohut (2012). “The Restoration of the Self”, p.144, University of Chicago Press
“Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.”
“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”
“It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.”
“There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.”

Source : Interview with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. October 5, 1996.

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