"I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway, and I just can't stop thinking that the little kid eating french fries with his mom in the shopping mall is going to grow up and my sister."

-- Stephen Chbosky

#Mom Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.”

Source : Kresley Cole (2010). “Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve: A Hunger Like No Other, Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night, Pleasure of a Dark Prince”, p.1283, Simon and Schuster
“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naÃ¯vetÃ©, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.”

Source : Steve Martin (2007). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
“My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.”
“I feel that Orphei Drängar are among Sweden's foremost ambassadors. It's always a delight to hear the drängar, both abroad and at home.”
“I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.”
“You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up seven is still a function of random luck.”

Source : "Barry Ritholtz: Outcome or process — what investment focus succeeds over time?" by Barry Ritholtz, www.washingtonpost.com. February 22, 2014.
“It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.”

Source : Lewis Madison Terman (1919). “The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children”
“If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.”

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