"Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her."

-- Amy Tan

#Thinking Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Most of us have nicknames-annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your true name has the secret power to call you.”
“The only thing was, she didn't really want to see the future. What she wanted was to see something no one else could see or would see, and maybe that was asking for more magic that was in the world.”
“One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of many lay men and women [...] to cooperate generously in the 'missio ad gentes.' As Vatican Council II stressed, the work of evangelization is a fundamental duty incumbent upon the whole People of God.”
“The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits.”

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“Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense”
“If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.”
“There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.”
“It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas”

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