"It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Death Quotes #Dream Quotes #Selfish Quotes

“It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.”
“The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.”

Source : Leonard Sweet (2009). “Summoned to Lead”, p.68, Harper Collins
“I'm not thinking about my numbers. I'm just trying to do the best I can to help the team win.”
“Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want, make it absolutely clear in our minds what we want, and from that we start to invoke one of the greatest laws in the Universe, and that's the law of attraction. You become what you think about most, but you also attract what you think about most.”
“I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.”
“The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.”
“I'm not sure that it's right to view this as excluding a particular group. When the institution of marriage developed historically, people didn't get around and say, 'Let's have this institution, but let's keep out homosexuals.' The institution developed to serve purposes that, by their nature, didn't include homosexual couples.”
“I don’t want traffic behavior, I want social behavior.”

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