"I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame."

-- Anne Lamott

#Anxiety Quotes #Culture Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.”
“Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if you're only looking for a lucky break.”
“We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.”

Source : Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
“Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.”

Source : Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2003). “Dune: House Atreides”, p.42, Spectra
“Are we going to fire the father to hire the son? We want to create jobs for young people, but not at the expense of others.”
“Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.”
“The hardest thing to get right is to figure out how to bring all those characters together, and to fulfill the promise of The Avengers. They really set a very high bar for themselves because you've been setting this coalition up, for these five movies, and they better deliver. And in my opinion, they thoroughly deliver.”
“Very good laws may be ill timed.”

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