"We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death"

-- Alexander Herzen

#Children Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.”
“(The Weakest Link) is fascinating program. They ask a bunch of people questions and they keep getting rid of the dumbest person, so just the smartest person is left. It is kind of the opposite way we elect a president.”
“As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.”
“Eventually as a teenager, I was pulled up on stage by James Brown's saxophone player, Maceo Parker, during one of his concerts and scatted on his stage for 20 minutes. After I was done, Maceo's bass player got down on one knee as if he were proposing, took a string off of his bass guitar and coiled it up around my ring finger. He hushed the crowd and said into the microphone, "Wendy, from this day forward you are married to music. You have a gift from God. You must devote your life to using this gift or else you will deprive the world of something so special." I got the chills.”
“I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.”
“You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.”
“I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be”
“Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.”

Source : Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.100, Bantam

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