"I wasnâ€™t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common."

-- Ned Vizzini

#Mom Quotes #Smart Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me.”
“Differences will always exist, but division doesn't always have to result.”

Source : Beth Moore (2010). “Paul: 90 Days on His Journey of Faith”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group
“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.”

Source : Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated
“You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.”

Source : "The end is nigh" by Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2001.
“Clarity comes from action, not thought.”
“All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual.”
“I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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