"It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal."

-- Jacob K. Javits

#Adults Quotes #Understood Quotes

“Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.”
“One sees what one wants to see when there is in mind a pre-conceived notion.”
“When youre young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.”
“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”
“Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is trying to think about us - something we want more than praise?”

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
“Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.”

Source : James Carroll (1997). “An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (2013). “Henryk Sienkiewicz: Three Stories”, p.7, Wildside Press LLC
“The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.”

Source : Isaac Barrow, John Tillotson, Abraham Hill (1700). “The works of the learned Isaac Barrow ...”

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