"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had."

-- Margaret Mead

#Wise Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.”
“Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.”

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“The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?”
“Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.”
“The truth is that once you get down on the trading floor, you find that the traders come from all walks of life. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to be a trader. In fact, some of the best traders whom I knew down on the floor were surf bums. Formal education didn't really seem to have much to do with a person's skill as a trader.”
“So where did these cravings come from? I concluded it's the baby ordering in. Prenatal takeout. Even without ever being in a restaurant, fetuses develop remarkably discerning palates, and they are not shy about demanding what they want. If they get a hankering, they just pick up the umbilical cord and call. 'You know what would taste good right now? A cheeseburger, large fries, and a vanilla shake. And if you could, hurry it up, because I'm supposed to grow a lung in a half hour.'”
“When I was nine, I asked my Dad, â€˜Can I have your movie camera? That old, wind-up 8-millimeter movie camera thatâ€™s in your drawer?â€™ And he goes, â€˜Sure, take it.â€™ And I took it, and I started making movies with it, and I started being as creative as I could, and never once in my life did my parents ever say, â€™ What youâ€™re doing is a waste of time.â€™ Neverâ€¦.. I know there are kids out there that donâ€™t have that support system. So, if youâ€™re out there and youâ€™re listening, listen to me: If you wanna be creative, get out there and do it. Itâ€™s not a waste of time.”
“What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.”

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