"Don't seek approval. This may be the toughest suggestion for you to follow -- and the most important. Whether you'te a teenager seeking approval from your peers, a middle-aged parent seeking the approval of your kids, or a man or woman seeking the approval of a partner, it all amounts to the same thing. You're giving your personal power away every time you seek validation from someone else for who you are."

-- T. J. MacGregor

#Teenager Quotes #Kids Quotes #Men Quotes

“See, because I played behind the scenes so much I already knew what to expect. So I started getting myself ready. I was creating work for myself to do. People were telling me to take a rest and saying "damn, you already acting like you going on MTV or something." In my mind I was because I knew it was what I'd have to do in the near future.”
“Precision medicine is diving into the DNA with a knowledge that everybody's tumor has a unique genetic profile and you want to be able to identify that specific piece of DNA that has become mutated and that is driving cancer growth.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.”

Source : Mona Simpson (2014). “Casebook: A novel”, p.26, Vintage
“They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ...”
“I believe there is some kind of magic that comes just from looking at somebody. In the beginning, I called it "Genius" in a very cynical way. Then I started to look at real geniuses in history and all of them have the same expression, of something very bitter. It's bitter because they have this kind of knowledge that they cannot share. They don't have the time or energy to deal with other people.”
“We have barely tapped the power that is ours. We are more than we know.”

Source : Charlene Spretnak (1982). “The Politics of women's spirituality: essays on the rise of spiritual power within the feminist movement”, Doubleday
“I have a bigger problem at food events when I turn over a wine glass and people insist on pouring me a glass of wine. I have a bigger problem with drunk wine representatives, drunk wine salesmen at food events who keep trying to push a glass in my hand.”

Source : Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com
“If a battle can not be won do not fight it.”

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