"It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are."

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James Mackintosh

#Positive Quotes

“When I first heard about Beverly Hills Chihuahua, I thought, no. This, this is ridiculous. And then you read the script and you close the script and you go, "They aren't going to be able to do that with real dogs. How are they going to do that?" You're going to see the strings. But they did.”
“Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.”
“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”
“If I am a thief, it's because of private property.”
“The perennial gale of creative destruction”
“If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1892). “Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic”
“What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?”
“So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up one day. We, even if reluctantly, fall into place to live a life of conformity that we describe as â€˜maturity.â€™ Weâ€™ve made acting like an adult synonymous with living apathetic lives.”

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