"The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see."

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Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

Elizabeth Bibesco

#Mind Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.”
“I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.”
“The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.”
“Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.”
“These are icons to be treasured.”
“Create your own path. Cultivate it. It'll take time. It doesn't happen overnight. I was an actor for many years before I got behind the camera.”
“...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult it is for us to attain to reality... We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does it surrender itself to him.”

Source : Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.92, The Book Foundation

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