"Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock."

-- Ben Lindsey

#Inspirational Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Teenager Quotes

“My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.”
“Personally, I enjoy a bowl of brown rice for breakfast most of the time.”

Source : Kathy Freston (2012). “The Lean: A Revolutionary (and Simple!) 30-Day Plan for Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss”, p.22, Hachette UK
“It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.”
“There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.”
“We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.”

Source : Sakyong Miphan Rinpoche (2004). “Turning the Mind Into an Ally”, p.18, Penguin
“I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.”
“A hijra is someone who has transitioned from male to female, but we don't consider ourselves female because culturally we belong to a completely different section of society. Many hijras are castrated, but it's not compulsory. They say it's the soul which is hijra. We feel we are neither man nor woman, but we enjoy femininity. I enjoy womanhood, but I am not a woman. It's very confusing.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.”

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