"We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing."

-- Gail Sheehy

#Growing Up Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.”

Source : James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.81, Open Road Media
“Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together”
“My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes.”

Source : Jennifer Echols (2011). “Love Story”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.”
“The first ninety minutes are the most important.”
“Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.”
“She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.”
“For any budding cricketers listening, do you have any superstitious routines before an innings, like putting one pad on first and then the other one?”

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