"After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us."

-- Carson McCullers

#Lonely Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Self Quotes

“It may not be possible to 'win the future,' in President Obama's words, but if we're going to encourage more innovation, it's not enough for us to just dig in and work harder. We also need to encourage surprise and serendipity. We need to play each other's instruments.”
“When I came right out of college I remember someone pulling me aside and telling me how to exactly fit in. How to wear my hair, what clothes I should wear, even how I should talk and wave or not wave or hold my hands. I wish I never had that conversation. It held me back for like two years and it took me a while to learn this myself, but the idea that you are your own brand, and you are your own person.”

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“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”
“I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.”
“In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.”
“New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.”
“That was how I was going to get things back to normal-by working. I never thought I would use the words â€œworkingâ€ and â€œnormalâ€ in the same sentence, but I'll try anything to avoid facing reality.”
“When people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember.”

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