"Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying â€“ what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Silly Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sentimental Quotes

“You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me.”
“REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.”
“We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.”
“Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.”
“Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can't persuade himself to believe are good.”

Source : "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking". Book by Oliver Burkeman, www.newyorker.com. 2012.
“Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.”
“We want to be on the offensive without being offensive.”
“Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.”

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