"Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect."

-- Ben Marcus

#Motivation Quotes #Home Quotes #Labs Quotes

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
“Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.”
“The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.”
“Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.”
“Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder.”
“Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.”
“Love is the outlaw's duty.”

Source : Jayne Anne Phillips (2011). “Black Tickets: Stories”, p.262, Vintage
“Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.”

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