"We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay."

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Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

Marina Keegan

#Self Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.”
“Beauty, the smile of God, Music, His voice.”

Source : Robert Underwood Johnson (1919). “Collected Poems, 1881-1919”
“I'm a really sensitive person. I cry if I miss a cab. I've always worn my emotions on my sleeve. I think it makes life so much better when you can talk about anything.”
“Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.”
“It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters of the globe and probably the universe and the only question was whether we were handling our mastery well. (No. Next question.)”
“Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.”
“This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.”
“Met you as a stranger Took you as a friend Hope we meet in Heaven Where friendship never ends”

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