"You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention."

-- Cassandra Clare

#Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.”
“You can't get to genius on a platform of excuses.”
“Indigenous people made huge contributions to this country. The biggest is in sharing the land and resources. People need to see that, understand that. Indigenous people should be viewed as the founding peoples of this land.”
“A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live...”
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

Source : Erica Jong (2007). “Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters”, p.90, Penguin
“If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment Islam wouldn't exist today.”
“Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.”
“Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group space. In this sense architecture serves our institutions and expresses the values of our culture.”

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