"I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Latin Quotes #Selfishness Quotes

“Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.”

Source : Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf
“No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.”
“I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.”
“Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”
“I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.”
“It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.”
“Music is life, and life is not a business.”

Source : "Iggy Pop celebrates Hall of Fame induction in typical fashion... by baring his chest". www.dailymail.co.uk. March 16, 2010.
“Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.”

Source : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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