"The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#World Quotes #Rich Quotes #Occasions Quotes

“My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.”
“Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.”
“The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending to slip successfully into the new mould; a time will come when the tailored and camouflaged mind breaks beneath the burden; the stick insect in our brains no longer cares to resemble a twig on the same habitual human tree in the mere hope that it may survive extinction.”
“The name is something we thought about for a long time, and we wanted it to be a girl's name, but we didn't want it to be 'the Jesses,' ... We were very conscious of not wanting to make it a twin thing, because we think that's really tacky.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.”
“Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.”

Source : "Rise to Your Own Occasion: 7 Essential Practices of Brilliant Women" by Jami Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2014.
“We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.”
“We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for-sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm... As a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.”

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