"I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods."

-- John Shirley

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.”
“It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward”

Source : Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.92, Hachette UK
“I try to do romantic gestures all the time. For instance, this morning I work up early -- earlier than I would have normally liked to have woken up. Elizabeth [Chambers] was still asleep, so I just laid in bed and cuddled with her for an hour. I just ran my hands over her body. It was nice.”
“I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.”
“When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.”
“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”

Source : Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Real Moments for Lovers: The Enlightened Guide for Discovering Total Passion and True Intimacy”, p.20, Dell
“But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.”
“I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound. A sound I'd never heard before or since. To be honest with you, I didn't much like it at first.”

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