"I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty. Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.... I think beauty is an expression of love."

-- Lupita Nyong'o

#Beautiful Quotes #Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.”

Source : Walter Kirn (2002). “Up in the Air: A Novel”, p.119, Anchor
“When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.”
“A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.”
“Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.”
“A good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.”

Source : Source: coupdemainmagazine.com
“It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.”
“If you bring that scrappy fierceness with you it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels uncomfortable...When you're the little guy that's lauded, that's heroic.”
“Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...”

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