"I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases)."

-- Katharine Whitehorn

#Mother Quotes #Men Quotes #Years Quotes

“Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.”
“Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.”
“Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.”
“Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leadership.... I have seen many a good [military unit] underachieve, because someone...thought the commander was incompetent, and quietly worked to undermine his authority.”
“The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.”

Source : Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”
“Value God and his love more than all the world, though there were millions of them. He valued you before the world, and therefore is beforehand with you in his love. He not only loved you from everlasting, (whereas your love is but of yesterday,) but in the valuation of it, he loved you before all worlds, and preferred you to all worlds: though you loved the world first, before you loved him.”

Source : Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.79
“Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
“And Zach was taking his jacket off and draping it around my shoulders, which (according to Liz, who double checked with Macey) is the single-sexiest thing a guy can do.”

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