"This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are."

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Source : Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.103, Penguin

Mahbod Seraji

#Drama Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Different Quotes

“I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boysâ€™ dreams in your spare time.”
“Fathers' sharing in the birth experience can be a stimulus for men's freedom to nurture, and a sign of changing relationships between men and women. In the same way, women's freedom to give birth at home is a political decision, an assertion of determination to reclaim the experience of birth. Birth at home is about changing society.”

Source : Sheila Kitzinger (2011). “Birth Your Way: Choosing Birth at Home Or in a Birth Center”, p.179, Fresh Heart Publishing
“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam
“When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. â€”Alton Richard”
“I get paid to ask questions I don't know the answers to and to complain about the things that bother me.”

Source : "It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America". Book by Jack Cafferty, 2008.
“Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.”
“A truly international field, no Britons involved.”
“Our lives will depend upon the decisions which we make, for decisions determine destiny.”

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