"We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Fool Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Should Quotes

“Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.”

Source : John Knowles (2014). “A Separate Peace”, p.174, Simon and Schuster
“Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.”
“Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.”
“I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.”
“People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.”
“The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.”
“Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.”

Source : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.263, Macmillan
“She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?”

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