"Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad."

-- Rene Descartes

#Judging Quotes #Mind Quotes #Individual Quotes

“It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.”
“Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradictionâ€”and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.”
“When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.”
“I love people who are complicated, and I love playing people who are complicated.”
“Some people say you can get hepatitis if you do coke with ones because they've been handled so much. But I tested that theory out for about a year, and I decided it's bullshit.”
“No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.”

Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.270, Simon and Schuster
“The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!”
“Right at that moment it was as if we were the only two people left in the world. And I don't mean that to sound corny; it just honestly did. The only sounds were the droning crickets and chip-chips of the bats, the farawy wind against the sand, and the occasional distant yowl of a dingo. There were no car horns.No trains. No jack-hammers. No lawnmowers No planes. No sirens. No alarms. No anything human. If you'd told me that you'd saved me from a nuclear holocaust, I might have believed you.”

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