"In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational."

-- Ian Mcewan

#Feelings Quotes #Shrinking Quotes #Moments Quotes

“The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.”
“No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.”
“I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.”
“I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.”

Source : Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1922). “My life and some letters”
“Universities in general and my university in particular really has to reach out and find ways to engage more with a broader array of ideas and political thought.”
“One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret.”
“My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day and learn that? It feels like something you should just do involuntarily, like swallowing or blinking, but now I have to work on it. It feels so forced. I mean, I know I went to a good school, and people tell me I'm smart and creative, but I don't KNOW that. I don't know how to make myself feel that.”
“As businessmen caught a glimpse of the potentialities inherent in endlessly expanding the wants of people under consumerism, forced draft or otherwise, many began to see blue skies... What was needed was strategies that would make Americans in large numbers into voracious, wasteful, compulsive consumers-and strategies that would provide products assuring such wastefulness. Even where wastefulness was not involved, additional strategies were needed that would induce the public to consume at ever-higher levels.”

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