"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

-- Aristotle

#Inspirational Quotes #Business Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes

“I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive. ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation.”
“Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.”
“Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.”
“What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.”
“I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!”
“Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion.”
“A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.”

Source : "More Women Than Men". Book by Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1951.
“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.”

Source : Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.102, Bantam

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