"At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world."

-- Simone Weil

#Heart Quotes #World Quotes #Longing Quotes

“If somebody attacks me with words, I'm always like, Do you know me? Do you know me that well? Let's have a beer and talk about it.”
“Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.”
“My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.”
“If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.”

Source : "Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World". Remarks by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University-wide Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.
“When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity?”
“May I meet each moment fully and meet it as a friend.”
“Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation.”
“I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to stay in China." The thought visibly struck him, and his head came up with sudden enthusiasm. "If I were very offensive, do you suppose they would go away now?" he asked. "Laurence, what would be particularly insulting" Hammond looked like Pandora, the box open and horrors loose upon the world. Laurence was inclined to laugh, but he stifled it out of sympathy.”

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