"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."

-- Marcus Aurelius

#Philosophical Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“When you know that someone close to you is going to die, there's a natural tendency to want to spend as much time with them as you can.”

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“All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.”

Source : Wisława Szymborska (1981). “Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems”, p.43, Princeton University Press
“Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.”
“My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?”
“If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his.”

Source : EUGENIA PRICE (1959). “WOMAN TO WOMAN”
“It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools.”
“If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, Iâ€™d have been shooting them all my life.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.135, Hachette UK

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