"Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it."

-- Albert Camus

#Elements Quotes #Unreality Quotes #Misfortunes Quotes

“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.”
“To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.”

Source : Mary Alice Monroe (2017). “Girl in the Mirror”, p.135, MIRA
“If consumers weren't thinking this way, companies would be a lot less responsive. Right now, consumers don't really have a way to get information about where exactly their clothing is coming from - that's a barrier. We have labels on your eggs, "cage-free hens." They need to get something along those lines to allow the consumer to discriminate.”
“People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.”
“As we help others, we cannot help but help ourselves.”
“Travel, of course, narrows the mind.”
“The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.”

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