"In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment."

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Source : Tami Hoag (2007). “The Alibi Man”, p.265, Bantam

Tami Hoag

#Real Quotes #Self Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes

“I hate myself because I am not beautiful. I hate myself because I am fat.”

Source : Judith Moore (2005). “Fat Girl: A True Story”, p.13, Penguin
“In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy”
“I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.”
“Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.”

Source : Anthony Powell (2010). “The Valley of Bones: Book 7 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.221, University of Chicago Press
“Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.”
“What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.”

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