"Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves."

-- Alain de Botton

#Self Quotes #Years Quotes #Careers Quotes

“A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.”
“I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.”
“A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.”

Source : Concept of Mind (1949) introduction
“I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.”

Source : Song: Amarillo By Morning
“They will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any place”
“I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.”
“We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.”
“I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com

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