"What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?"

-- Lucy Larcom

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Gossip Quotes

“I came like Water, and like Wind I go.”

Source : Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.149, University of Virginia Press
“Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'”
“I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.”
“You tellin' me people don't look at Kanye West like the Glitch.”
“But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.”

Source : William Congreve (1706). “The Way of the World: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr. Congreve”, p.13
“behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”
“We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.”

Source : Jared Polis Speech Text: Read The Congressman’s Democratic Convention Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.
“I'm not a joiner. I don't like organizations.”

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