"PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING PEOPLE DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU!! IT'S BECAUSE OF THEMSELVES!!"

-- Miguel

#Expression Quotes #People Quotes #Selfishness Quotes

“Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.”
“Between the covers, a book can be a sin.”
“Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!”

Source : "America" (song) (1831) See Archibald Carey 1; Martin Luther King 14
“If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.”
“The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.”

Source : A. Meredith Walters (2014). “Light in the Shadows”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
“I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.”
“The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?”

Source : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan
“Working alone on stories, I began to feel the anonymity of motels on interstate highways reached by jet planes and rental cars. It was hard to have a good time, and the only way I could make the loneliness excusable was by taking pictures I thought were very good, even valuable.”

Source : John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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