"We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness."

-- Augustus William Hare

#Recovery Quotes #Men Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed aberration for our species? As ill-suited to our evolved tendencies as corsets, chastity belts, and suits of armor? ...a distorted and distorting family structure inappropriate for our species?”
“With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class. My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment”
“Merging photographs can be more real than the isolated image because reality is so much more rich than just an isolated moment.”
“Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.”

Source : danah boyd (2014). “It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”, p.76, Yale University Press
“I think anyone who gets the Nobel Prize has to be a little bit embarrassed to be picked out when there have been so many people who have contributed.”
“The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.”
“Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.”
“A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.”

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