"I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take."

-- Julie Salamon

#People Quotes #Path Quotes #Obsessed Quotes

“There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.”

Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1856). “On the lessons in Proverbs: being the substance of lectures delivered to young men's societies at Portsmouth and elsewhere; from the Second London edition, rev. and enlarged”, p.89
“I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.”
“The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.”
“The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.”
“An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.”
“Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.”
“The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.”
“We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.”

Source : Bahai lecture, New York; as quoted in "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America", W.C. Seitz, 1983, p. 104, October 30, 1951.

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