"When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell you who you are, donâ€™t believe them. You are the only custodian of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal about them and absolutely nothing about you."

-- Maria Popova

#Integrity Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.”
“The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office from economic power held by citizens, and the broad diffusion of privately owned economic power.”

Source : Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books
“Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.”

Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.254, Simon and Schuster
“If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.”
“Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother”
“You just do you like when you're doing any other song. It's nothing different. Some people are like "How's it like working with Kendrick Lamar?" and really, it's like working with anyone else that I work with.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
“It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.”
“its difficult to dislike a man who takes pleasure in giving away free beer.”

Source : Kevin Hearne (2012). “Trapped: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Five”, p.126, Del Rey

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