"The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much."

-- Jimmy Nail

#Thinking Quotes #Accepting Quotes #Easier Quotes

“We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.”

Source : Frans de Waal (2006). “Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are”, p.11, Penguin
“We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.”
“I cried for madder music and for stronger wine...”

Source : Ernest Christopher Dowson, Desmond Flower, Henry Maas (1968). “The Letters of Ernest Dowson”, p.185, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
“My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.”
“To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment-are all the blackest of black lies. On the other hand, to teach one to try one's best to avoid the truth-even to press it when necessary toward the outer edge of the rainbow-for a reason of kindness, or of mercy, is far closer to the heart of truth than to repeat something accurately and mercilessly that will cruelly hurt the feelings of someone.”
“Once it stops being fun, we won't be able to do it anymore. People are going to know that we're not having fun, and we're going to know that we're not having fun. So at that point, it just ends.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?”
“Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.”

Source : Rebecca Goldstein (1993). “The Mind-Body Problem”, Penguin Group USA

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