"It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient."

-- Josh Billings

#Funny Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Self Quotes

“I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.”
“We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or lose but how well you play the game." I used to think that was about sports, but as an adult, I realize what I create, do, etc., is more important than winning a prize.”
“What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.”
“My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?...”
“I'm not going to go home and drink rat urine.”
“Are you willing to take responsibility for your team's culture or do you treat it like the weather - something that happens to you?”
“I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.”
“For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.”

Source : 'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 17, ch. 16

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