"I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone."

-- Gillian Flynn

#Crush Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.”
“I am coming from an older school, and I feel that you must learn to wait. There is that essay which was about the great notion of sitting on the mountain and waiting for the muses to cross the stream, and give you the symbols that would allow you to create. The word wait seems to me to be terribly important.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com
“A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can”
“We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.”
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

Source : Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.398, Basic Books
“We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.”
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
“We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.”

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