"By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people."

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Source : "What You Learn in Your 40s". www.nytimes.com. February 28, 2014.

Pamela Druckerman

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #40th Birthday Quotes

“Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.”
“Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those Welsh, Scottish and Anglo-Irish individuals who became part of the British Establishment in this period did not in the main sell out in the sense of becoming Anglicised look-alikes. Instead, they became British in a new and intensely profitable fashion, while remaining in their own minds and behavior Welsh, or Scottish, or Irish aswell.”
“The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

Source : Harvard Commencement remarks, news.harvard.edu. May 26, 2011.
“... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.”
“The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.”
“New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.”
“The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.”
“But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.”

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