"I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Reading Quotes #People Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes

“I thought, 'OK, I'm done here. I'll take responsibility and go away.' Little did I know I was going to be going away limping because someone cut my legs out from under me.”
“Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.”

Source : Douglas William Jerrold (1842). “Bubbles of the Day: a comedy. [In five acts and in prose.]”, p.33
“At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend.”
“A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.”
“A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.”
“Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!”

Source : Bret Harte (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Bret Harte (Illustrated)”, p.6563, Delphi Classics
“Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about”
“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

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