"Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd."

-- Alexander Pope

#Spring Quotes #Men Quotes #Self Quotes

“Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.”
“can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!”
“I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers stopped reading them.”

Source : SUE KAUFMAN (1967). “DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE”
“If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?”

Source : B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.145, Vintage
“It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness. Take care of yourself.”

Source : Atlantic Monthly June (1939)
“Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.”
“People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.”
“I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to label everything...so I guess I seem indifferent in that way. ---Yasu”

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