"But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't. Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world"

-- Meg Cabot

#True Friend Quotes #Bad Friend Quotes #Luck Quotes

“All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.”
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

Source : Horace Mann (1872). “Annual Reports on Education”, p.669
“Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.”
“It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.”

Source : Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will.”
“Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with!”
“I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.”
“Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.”

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